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Giorgia Meloni in Bari: “The South will be a place people come to, not leave”

From Corriere della Sera · () Italian

Translated from Italian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told about 10,000 people in Bari that she wants southern Italy to become a destination for workers and investment rather than a place people leave.
  • She cited potential investment in data centers and energy and technology projects, while calling the former Ilva steelworks in Taranto one of the region’s most complex issues.
  • Meloni also addressed the killing of Lorena Isceri and defended her government’s record on healthcare waiting lists and political stability.

Giorgia Meloni stood before about 10,000 people on Bari’s waterfront and set out a vision of southern Italy as a destination, not a departure point. The prime minister was speaking at an event celebrating the longevity of her government, which she described as the longest-serving in Italy’s republican history.

This will be the next goal: to make the South a place people come to, not one they leave. It is not just a reservoir of votes.

· Giorgia MeloniMeloni described her political vision for southern Italy.

“This will be the next goal: to make the South a place people come to, not one they leave. It is not just a reservoir of votes,” Meloni said. She described the region as having been treated for too long as a problem to solve, but said it could host major investments. “There is no law of physics saying that a data center must be in the North and not in Bari,” she said.

There is no law of physics saying that a data center must be in the North and not in Bari.

· Giorgia MeloniThe prime minister argued that major technology investments could be located in southern Italy.

Meloni praised Puglia as an attractive and successful region, pointing to Taranto’s organization of the Mediterranean Games and thanking the city and region for the welcome they offered delegations. But Taranto also represents one of the government’s hardest challenges because of the former Ilva steelworks. Meloni said the issue divided residents between those who want the plant closed and those who want to preserve its value.

Femicide exists, and it has an aggravating factor: a woman is killed because she dared to be free, and that is not acceptable in a Christian society.

· Giorgia MeloniMeloni condemned the killing of Lorena Isceri.

She also spoke about the recent killing of Lorena Isceri, a 45-year-old from Squinzano, condemning femicide and saying the case showed that women are killed because they have dared to be free. Meloni did not mention the regional government, but defended her national administration over healthcare waiting lists, saying they existed five or six years ago and that the left had left the problem to her government. European Commission Vice-President Raffaele Fitto called the government’s longevity a major political achievement and a source of greater stability in Europe.

A stable government is not necessarily the most capable one, but the one that has had more time than the others to be judged.

· Giorgia MeloniMeloni discussed the significance of her government’s longevity.
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Originally published by Corriere della Sera in Italian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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