Letter: Meloni’s values are those of Schuman and Adenauer

It must be “hard” to break a habit but your writers really should try (“Meloni’s hard-right group claims top EU post”, Report, June 21). Every FT article that mentions Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni refers to her party and coalition as “hard” right.

Centre right would be more appropriate as those positions held by Meloni on faith, family and fatherland are the same values espoused by the founders of the European project — Alcide De Gasperi, Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schuman.

It is not “hard” to understand that the people of Italy not only voted on economic and political issues but on social, moral and spiritual values too. They don’t want an EU that forcefully promotes the depopulating effects of abortion at a time of plunging birth rates, nor an EU that bans the names of Jesus and Mary even at Christmas time.

Will you kindly pause, read, listen and learn all that Meloni and her coalition stand for or will you remain “hard” headed in future articles?

Vincenzina Santoro
New York, NY, US