Meloni blasts agreement on EU top jobs - TopNews - Ansa.it

Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday
blasted the agreement reportedly made by the centre-right
European People’s Party (EPP), the socialists and liberal groups
for the EU top jobs as she reported to the Lower House before
this week’s EU summit.


Under the reported deal, Commission President Ursula von der
Leyen of the EPP will keep her position, while former Portuguese
socialist prime minister Antonio Costa will take over as
European Council president and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja
Kallas, a liberal, will become the new EU high representative
for foreign affairs.


“The mistake that is about to be made, with the imposition of
the logic of a fragile majority that is probably destined to
have difficulties during the (European) parliamentary term, is
an major mistake, not for the centre-right or for Italy, but for
a Europe that does not seem to understand the challenge it
faces, or, if it does understand, it but prefers, in any case,
to prioritize other things,” said Meloni, the chair of the
European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, which her
right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party belongs to.


“If we want to do good service to Europe and its credibility, we
must show that we have understood the errors of the past and
have the utmost consideration for the directions of the
citizens, who are asking for a more concrete, less ideological
Europe”.


The deal was reportedly reached in a video conference of six
national leaders representing the three groups – Poland’s Donald
Tusk and Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the EPP, Germany’s
Olaf Scholz and Spain’s Pedro Sanchez for the socialists and
France’s Emmanuel Macron and the Netherlands’ Mark Rutte for the
liberals.


Meloni blasted such ‘fireplace’ agreements made among a small
group of leaders, especially given how the parties of those
figures did in the European elections.


“If there is one indisputable thing that comes from the ballot
box, it is the rejection of the policies pursued by the
political parties in government in many of the large European
nations, which, in many cases, are also the parties that have
dictated the European policies of recent years.


“The governing parties got 16% in France, 32% in Germany, 34% in
Spain.


“Only in Italy are 53% of those elected representatives of
government parties”.