Middle East

Board for Gaza, Meloni puts the brakes on: 'Constitutional problem, the statute is incompatible with Article 11'

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, guest on the 30-year anniversary show Porta a Porta: "We need more time" "Board for Gaza will not become a private UN. Putin? "In multilateralism at the table also distant people"

by Rome Editorial Staff

21 January 2026

La presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni in occasione della trasmissione "Speciale Porta a porta - 30 anni della nostra vita”, Roma, Mercoledì 21 Gennaio 2026

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Key points

Meloni: 'Board by-laws for Gaza incompatible with Article 11'
"Board for Gaza will not become a private UN"
Putin? "In multilateralism at the table even distant people"
Greenland, "Good that Trump rules out military option, now let's find solutions"
"Greenland should be dealt with within NATO"
"With the US an absence of communication to be restored"
"A Europe-US divide benefits no one"

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Italy does not enter the Board for Gaza. There is a problem of 'constitutional incompatibility' that 'does not allow us to sign immediately, we need more time'. The indication came from Giorgia Meloni. A guest on the 30th anniversary episode of the programme 'Porta a Porta', aired on Wednesday evening 21 January on Rai1, the prime minister froze membership of the body wanted by Donald Trump. 'Italy's position is one of openness,' she said, 'We are open, available and interested. For at least two reasons. The first is that Italy can play a unique role in the realisation of the peace plan for the Middle East and in the construction of the two-state perspective, and then in general I would not consider it an intelligent choice on the part of Italy and Europe to exclude itself in a body that is in any case interesting. There is for us a constitutional problem of compatibility because from the reading of the statute it has emerged that there are some elements of incompatibility with our Constitution, this does not allow us to sign certainly tomorrow, but we need more time, there is work to be done, but my position remains open'.

Meloni: 'Board by-laws for Gaza incompatible with Article 11'

"The legal and regulatory issue is mainly in relation to Article 11" of the Constitution, the PM explained, "the one whereby we can cede pieces of our sovereignty on an equal footing between states. And this may be incompatible with some articles of the statute" of the Board of Peace for Gaza.

"Board for Gaza will not become a private UN"

"It is a doubt that I have read, I do not believe such a body and that no body in general can replace the United Nations," continued Meloni, interviewed by Bruno Vespa and Enrico Mentana who asked her whether with the Board for Gaza there is a risk of having a "private UN". "The United Nations is an over-established body and among other things," Meloni added, "I remember that the Board of Peace was born within the framework of a United Nations resolution. So it is an instrument also provided for by the United Nations. It is other profiles that are problematic for us'.

Meloni davanti alle telecamere di “Porta a Porta”

La presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni durante il programma televisivo della Rai “Porta a Porta”, in occasione dei 30 anni della trasmissione condotta da Bruno Vespa (foto Ansa/ANGELO CARCONI)

Putin? "In multilateralism at the table even distant people"

The presence ofVladimir Putin on the Board of Peace for Gaza "is a political issue" but "I must point out that in any body let's say multilateral, multipolar there are and we sit at the table with people who are distant from us," the premier said. 'Russia sits in the United Nations, the UN Security Council and the G20,' Meloni added. 'In any body in which we sit, we sit with someone who is distant. The multilateral system was born for this. The issue can be assessed politically, but it is nothing new and nothing strange with respect to all the mechanisms of multilateralism'.

Greenland, 'Good that Trump rules out military option, now let's find solutions'

With regard to the Greenland case, and in particular the fact that Trump has ruled out the military option, Meloni confided: 'I was not surprised, I tell the truth, by what Donald Trump said: I have been saying for more than a year that in my opinion it is unrealistic for the United States to invade Greenland militarily. Clearly we all understand what the consequences of such a choice would be. It didn't surprise me, I'm glad he put it down on paper, but after that we have to look for solutions

"Greenland must be dealt with within NATO"

'In my opinion, this is a matter that, as I have said many times, should be dealt with within the Atlantic Alliance,' he added. 'This is a NATO competence. Greenland is to be considered as NATO's territory of responsibility. The two nations that are discussing this are two allies of the Atlantic Alliance and the question that the Americans are posing is a question of security over a strategic territory,' he added. 'This is a correct issue, it is an issue that concerns us as well. The whole of the Arctic, Greenland, also because of what is happening with climate change, become areas that have a particular strategic importance and there is certainly the risk that, for example, for the raw materials in which those territories are very rich, which many foreign powers are very fond of, there is not enough presence and sufficient control: it is a real issue. That is the issue that the Americans are raising

"With the US an absence of communication to be restored"

According to the premier, "part of the problems" between the US and Europe "is perhaps above all a lack of communication that needs to be restored. When in the past days and weeks some European countries decided to send soldiers for training operations in Greenland, this was read by the American administration as an attack on the Americans. I believe that instead,' he added, 'it was an attempt to respond to a need that the Americans also have. That's the reason why I called Donald Trump and told him: 'Look I think it's misunderstood. And I think it's a mistake to predict or threaten to add tariffs to those nations that had made that choice. But there's a part of these problems that is mainly from perhaps a lack of communication that needs to be restored'.

"A Europe-US divide benefits no one"

"I am worried about a thousand things, I am always worried when the climate rises, I am worried these days that there is again a very tense situation between the United States and Europe. You know what I think, I believe that a rift between Europe and the United States is not in anyone's interest, certainly," he stressed, "it is not in Italy's interest

Ssafety, "I am thinking of red zones around stations"

The Prime Minister also spoke on the security issue. And she confirmed that the government is thinking of establishing 'red zones' around stations. "It is one of the measures I have in mind," she said.

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