They trust and they don’t trust. Giorgia Meloni and Ursula Von der Leyen continue to study each other remotely. But time is running out and the name that must fill the missing box in the European sticker album must be made. And it must be approved within a few days. On the name of the commissioner – which must be indicated by the governments to the Commission – Italy is not the last country missing, the propaganda of the left is wrong: the indications for the commissioner of Portugal, Belgium, Denmark and Bulgaria, which is also in a full government crisis, are still missing. Of course, among the big ones, we are the only one, however, not to have yet provided the man-woman couple that von der Leyen is counting on. And now time is really starting to run out. The return from the August holidays accelerates the process. The phlegmatic times of Palazzo Chigi reveal what the real point is. If Raffaele Fitto has never had real competitors to undermine him, what is Rome waiting for to formalize its indications? Yesterday, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani also tried to clear the fog: “I am absolutely in favor, I was the first to support him. He is the best possible commissioner that Italy could have at this time, because he has great European experience. He will not go there to be a stageur, that is, an apprentice: he will go to play an operational political role within the Commission to make Italy count in Europe”. So why not share him immediately with the European offices, having overcome the initial mistrust of the League?
“It was logical to first have certainty about what Italy is entitled to: the executive vice-presidency,” say sources from Fratelli d’Italia. Who still have hopes for the final outcome. “Nothing has already been decided.” Meanwhile, Carlo Fidanza, Fdi delegation leader in the ECR group, tries to reassure: “The government is ready within the expected timeframe to present the name of the commissioner indicated by Italy. President Meloni is proceeding with a sharing of this name within the majority and the government.
There will be no problems, we have no warnings of any kind”. If the name is to be shared in these days within the majority, are we sure that there are no surprises around the corner, for Fitto? The president of the ECR group, Nicola Procaccini, specifies: “I believe that the expression of a man and a woman is mandatory. Naturally there is a dialogue with the president of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. I believe that in some way the individual characteristics must be married with the portfolio of skills to be covered”. In short, Raffaele Fitto remains the most likely, but it cannot be ruled out that in the end a woman could emerge. “As for availability for the role of Commissioner for Immigration, there is talk of Elisabetta Belloni”, says a source from Brussels.
Someone else leaks the name of the queen of the blue preferences at the last European elections, Letizia Moratti. Perhaps also in this perspective, Tajani’s August declarations on Ius scholae, a topic dear to Von der Leyen and the EPP, would make sense.
#Moratti #hypothesis #emerges #Tempo
2024-08-27 08:08:04
