++ Phone call between Giorgetti and Meloni last night, 'failure to sign only because she was away from Rome' ++

Giancarlo Giorgetti's failure to sign the thirteenth package of military supplies to Ukraine was linked solely to his absence from Rome. This was clarified, as ANSA learns from qualified government sources, by the Economy Minister himself last evening in a phone call with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Since it is a classified document, it is explained, Giorgetti — who was in Brussels yesterday for the Eurogroup and Ecofin meetings — would not have been able to read and sign the interministerial decree remotely. Reproduction reserved © Copyright ANSA