The League returns to the square in Milan against the EU to attempt a revival

Counter-attack. Focusing on 'the economic situation of so many Italian families' and aiming to review the rules of the EU stability pact, because 'the high cost of diesel, electricity and gas mean that the EU must let us use the Italians' money to help those in difficulty, but immediately, not in two years'. These are the watchwords (in addition to 'peace, security and work') with which Matteo Salvini the League in Piazza Duomo in Milan on Saturday afternoon in the demonstration organised with the allied sovereignist parties of the 'Patriots', renamed 'Without fear, in Europe masters in our home'.

A square that the Carroccio aims to fill to show it is healthy, despite the complicated context. With Donald Trump (sponsored until a few months ago for the Nobel Peace Prize) attacking the pope and Giorgia Meloni, embarrassing the government; his friend Viktor Orban going off the rails in Hungary; the war in Iran unleashed by the US president causing bills to soar and Italians to fill up. Less emphasis therefore on 'remigration', more attention to concerns about soaring energy costs.

The target is a 'deaf, if not hostile' Europe. And its 'senseless and unsustainable' constraints. While the high energy price also makes it necessary to review the stop on Russian gas in order to 'secure Italia'. All the more so in the face of a rift between the US and Italia that Salvini admits when he says that 'Trump is not crazy, he has a strategy that is the American interest and in recent months does not coincide with the Italian one'.

After all, the attack on the EU budget constraints is shared by everyone in the League, even those most sensitive to the demands of the territories and federalism. It is no coincidence that Massimiliano Romeo, leader of the group in the Senate and regional secretary of the Lombard League, says: 'Let us take to the streets, all together, to defend our land, our values, our autonomy. It is the right occasion to raise our voice against the European Union, which must leave us free to spend our money to help our citizens and businesses, which are now in difficulty due to the increase in energy and fuel costs and bills'

Among the foreign guests are the Dutch Geert Wilders, leader of the PvP and Jordan Bardella leader of the French Rassemblement National. But to protest against the Patriots' rally, three counter-corteges (one of opposition parties and associations, one of social centres and antagonist realities, and one of the pro-Pal) will parade in Piazza Santo Stefano, five hundred metres from the Duomo. Hence a reinforcement of a few hundred agents as further support for public order.