EU foreign policy lacking as Union debates gender - Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 2 - EU common foreign policy is lacking as the Union wastes time debating secondary issues like gender identity, Premier Giorgia Meloni says in an excerpt from a new book by journalist Bruno Vespa.
    Meloni, who will have her first meeting with the EU's top officials in Brussels Thursday, also confirmed that she saw the Union as a confederation of sovereign states rather than a political union.
    "My idea of the EU is a federal one," she said. (ANSA).