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Luigi Bisignani

26 maggio 2024

Pricey director, bye bye Ursula and Macron; the curtain has fallen on the Cannes Movie Pageant, horror is all the fad in Europe. And with the most recent whirlwinds, new plots can develop following the European elections with surprising endings equivalent to the ultimate farewell to Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron from the Elysée. With the Parisian Napoleon, now cornered, who’s attempting every part and even exhibiting his nuclear muscle mass, terrified as he’s of being unseated by Marine Le Pen.

However first let’s take care of von der Leyen, final week going through the “Pfizer Gate” trial for her textual content messages. The expiring president of the European Fee has been used and thrown away like a Kleenex by everybody in Europe. Her re-election, lengthy taken without any consideration, is now a mission unimaginable.

The primary motive is that Ursula misplaced the safety of Angela Merkel who in 2019, along with Macron, put her on the head of the EU govt, sacrificing the everlasting promise of the EPP, Manfred Weber, who now cannot wait to take revenge. Within the years of her European mandate, von der Leyen underestimated the load of the events, a singular mistake for a robust exponent like her of the German Christian Democrats. She evidently felt extra relaxed among the many Brussels mandarins, whom she has recognized since childhood; her father, Ernst Albrecht, grew to become one of many first heads of the European Antitrust.

As soon as he understood the error, it was late and he tried to treatment it by courting our Giorgia, satisfied that she would convey her a robust base of votes. And to assume that it might have been sufficient for her to stay her nostril out of Brussels. In Rome, the truth is, you bivouacked for months with Udo Zolleis, the corpulent Bavarian emissary who coincidentally was Manfred Weber’s right-hand man. The pinnacle of the strategic unit of the EPP was within the capital to open channels with Meloni, but it surely appears he didn’t disdain frequenting the Roman taverns, repeating at each flip that, sure, Ursula is expendable. A situation that has change into more and more concrete following the EPP conclave, assembly in Bucharest, granted a lukewarm blessing to Ursula, to say the least; she who she now fears the rise of the good and really patrician Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis or the extra mediocre, however very bold, Maltese Roberta Metsola, who has at all times been “in love” with Antonio Tajani.

Returning to Giorgia, for an extended interval she was a relentless companion with von der Leyen for a number of causes: to safe the help of the president of the EU Fee on the PNRR funds, to point out management in Europe and, final however not least, to bother Macron, who undoubtedly would not like German. However now Giorgia and Ursula, regardless of the latter’s newest purring, now not see one another a lot. Certainly, lower than ten days in the past, when the president of the EU Fee landed in Rome, the chief of the Brothers of Italy mightn’t even discover 5 minutes to greet her. What occurred within the meantime? Mario Draghi’s doable entry into the sphere for a spot in Europe has pressured Giorgia to be very cautious when associating with the opposite blonde. In actual fact, if Macron proposed Mario Draghi, there would now not be a lot room for Ursula.
And even when the place provided to Draghi was that of president of the European Council, SuperMario would solely settle for if a German of those that “Draghi calls and he obeys” goes to move the Fee. Alexa type, because it was with Daniele Franco at Mef when Draghi was at Chigi. However our former prime minister additionally underestimates, identical to Ursula, the load of the events. This was seen in his 12 months and a half of presidency in Italy and now he dangers a repeat Quirinale-flop.

And it’s exactly right here that Macron comes once more into play: terrified by the rise of Marine Le Pen, who might oust him in 2027, he’s critically contemplating leaving the Elysée for Brussels, now that even the monetary powers have deserted him. And it appears he’s aiming for the very position for which he publicly proposes Draghi: to change into president of the EU Council, with the formal rank of Head of State. There, the truth is, it isn’t the votes obtained within the elections that depend (Macron’s social gathering has half as many as Meloni’s than Le Pen’s), however quite the certified majority vote of the heads of state and authorities of the EU international locations, the place the axis Franco-German remains to be very stable.

Olaf Scholz, maybe additionally to spite Giorgia who he has by no means liked, would help his Gallic good friend Emmanuel. If this situation had been to come back true, even Christine Lagarde, whose mandate on the ECB expires in 2027, should tremble. Occasions, even opened as much as Marine Le Pen. And this time the chief of the French far proper might convey much more deputies to the EU Parliament than the Italian prime minister.

The Home of Playing cards of the three EU presidential workplaces (Council, Fee and Parliament) has begun. And Giorgia goals to be decisive, given the id disaster of all her colleagues who will arrive disoriented and battered on the G20 summit in Puglia. Checco Zalone from Bari would describe the greats of the world in Borgo Egnazia like this: «Biden extra over there than over right here, Bergoglio in a wheelchair, Macron solely has Brigitte, his spouse, the Englishman Sunak who participates however following per week disappears as a result of he he votes and… loses, the half-lame German, in brief, a horror movie. We hope that at the very least they like orecchiette with turnip tops and burrata.” With a full abdomen you assume.