Press Review: Italian Firepower, French Farmers’ Fury, Ukrainian Intrigue — Europe’s February Heats Up

An Italian broadsheet, Corriere della Sera, reports that only Prime Minister Meloni had the chutzpah to speak to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán directly, and lo and behold, he listened.

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The prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, on October 5, 2023, at Granada, Spain. Marcelo del Pozo/Getty Images

ATHENS — The EU’s green light for $54 billion in fresh aid for Ukraine is as much of a sign as any that Europe has shaken off its winter torpor and is finally, in its characteristically roundabout way, getting down to business. By many accounts it was was pressure from Germany and Poland that moved the deal across the line, but it turns out that Chancellor Scholz and the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, were just ghosts in the Brussels gloom.

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