Giorgia Meloni urged postponing the EU-Mercosur trade agreement signature, calling a signing in the coming days premature after she avoided mentioning arms deliveries to Kyiv in a parliamentary resolution to keep her coalition intact.Ursula von der Leyen had planned to travel to Brazil to sign the pact and a signature requires a qualified majority of EU member states, and Paris had already asked for a delay earlier this week.The intervention followed a tense session in the
Chamber of Deputies where the governing majority passed a text that omitted weapons support, prompting members of
Forza Italia and the
League to leave the chamber and drawing sharp criticism from
Democratic Party leader
Elly Schlein.
Published: 22h | Updated: 20h