Meloni hands ECR presidency baton to Morawiecki

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 14 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday signed off as the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR), which her right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party belongs to at the EU level, and handed the baton to new president, former Polish prime minister Mateuzt Morawiecki of the Law and Justice (PiS) party.
    "It has been an honour and a privilege for me to serve as president of our party," Meloni told a meeting of the ECR council via video line, sources said.
    "Together, we have given a voice to tens of millions of European citizens in favour of the values ;;of freedom, national sovereignty, security and social cohesion. "Furthermore, we have cultivated relationships and fostered exchanges with non-European and overseas conservatives." (ANSA).