Moscow made big mistake betting on NATO split - Di Maio (7)

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Wednesday Russia made a "whopping mistake" in betting on divisions among NATO members over the Ukraine war.
    "If Moscow's thinking was that the Allies Countries, Europe and more generally the community of democracies would abandon Ukraine to its fate, we can say that this thinking proved to be resoundingly mistaken", he said at a conference of the De Gasperi Foundation at the foreign press club.
    Speaking at the Estates-General on Europe earlier, Di Maio said the reaction to the war would lend "fresh impetus" to the European Union.
    But he said that the unanimity rule was "blocking" Europe and its decision-making mechanisms had to be changed. (ANSA).