Does Germany want to bring down Giorgia Meloni?

Is there a plot afoot to oust Giorgia Meloni as Prime Minister and replace her with someone more to the progressive left’s taste? 

There have been rumours in the European media that Meloni’s government is teetering and that it ‘could fall and make way for a technocrat government.’

In 2011 Mario Monti formed such a government after the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi and he filled his cabinet with unelected technocrats, prompting Berlusconi to accuse him of ‘adopting the rules of austerity proposed by Germany.’ The former European Commissioner lasted just over a year in office before he resigned.

A decade after Monti was parachuted into Rome, another darling of Brussels was called upon to rescue Italy from democracy, this time the economist Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank between 2011 and 2019. He was gone within 18 months.  

Meloni was in combative mood during an interview at the weekend when she was asked about the health of her government.