One area of potential conflict between the new Italian government and its European partners is over the EU-funded recovery plan, which Giorgia Meloni has said she wants to renegotiate. Italy's European partners will not forget that the funds are linked to Italy's reform commitments and there is no way they will allow any changes before they see what the new government is doing on the reform front, said associate fellow Alessandro Merli in an interview with German daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung."