Rome, 29 May (LaPresse) – ‘To Giorgia Meloni I say: enough with the attacks on Europe; we risk making ourselves look ridiculous.’ So said EU Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni in an interview with La Stampa. ‘After a robust post-Covid recovery, today in Italy we are last in terms of growth and first in terms of debt,’ added the former prime minister. "This is despite the fact that over the last five years our country has received a huge amount of European public funds; in fact, in the seventy-year history of the European Union, no one has ever received so much. Perhaps before blaming Brussels, it would be more appropriate to face up to our own problems. Because saying that Italy’s problem is Brussels’ bureaucratic excesses is like saying that Palermo’s problem is traffic."