Italy’s Prime Minister, wanted to design in the European Parliament visions for the EU. However, in the fierce debate focused mainly on Italy: Migration, debt, disputes with the neighbours. Bernd Riegert reports.
The Italian Prime Minister, appeared in Strasbourg, much more moderate than the Statements of his populist Deputy home suspect. The non-party heads of government, Giuseppe Conte made a commitment to the European Union and Europe, while party leader Matteo Salvini on the right side and Luigi Di Maio demand more on the left side, “Italy first”, and European institutions, regularly and sharply criticize.
In his keynote speech before the European Parliament, Giuseppe Conte, the past nine months at the head of the populist coalition government said that nation-States alone could align in a globalised world, nothing. In Europe, people shared “a common destiny”. The right-wing interior Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, calls, together with the Polish national conservative of a different Europe in which the nation-States dominate. This is a view of the head of government of Italy does not share, apparently. Conte designed in his 45 minutes long speech in Strasbourg, the Vision of a “European people” that a Change of policy calls that have so far served only the elites. “Despite all of this, it has not yet, to be fully a people,” said Prime Minister Conte. The national state must, ultimately, be overcome.
Conte (Mi.) and his deputies Luigi Di Maio (5 stars) and Lega-chief Matteo Salvini (re.)
Migration as a fate question
Italy would ask the European partners and solidarity, particularly in the management of Migration. “The migrants don’t arrive in Italy, but in Europe,” said Conte. Was meant to be a distribution of migrants to other EU countries, is rejected especially by the populist governments in Poland, Hungary, or Austria. On denheftigen dispute with the French government, the spins in the core of the migration policy, the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, only briefly. He said the reason for the bilateral dispute is the inability of the EU to find solutions.
The closing of the Italian ports for Shipwrecked justify Conte with the note, Italy is a must-have to put the Migration back on the agenda. “This is the only way to counter people smuggling.” The Chairman of the social Democrats, Udo Bullmann social democratic party (SPD), accused the guest speakers, to need the migrants as hostages for an ideology, because this week not from the rescue vessels to the country. “To hear you, to show us the Face of inhumanity. This is not the Italy that we know.”
Apple of discord Migration: the courts need to force the inclusion of castaways, the ship Seawatch at the end of January in Catania
In search of growth
For the future of the EU, it is important, Giuseppe Conte, to find new models of Growth. The poor layers of the population in the EU were angry. This could lead to revolts, as you might in some countries, said the Italian head of government. “The growth we must not give up for the Save.” Italy have now embarked on their new policy a growth path, claimed Conte.
Opposition came promptly from the leader of the Christian Democrats, Manfred Weber (CSU). Italy run in a recession and it was the fault of his government, and held Weber Conte. The election promises would be funded with new debt. Sustainable reforms, it is not, criticized other members. Giuseppe Conte suggested, however, the creation of common funding instruments at the European level, before the next economic crisis starting. The EU has a long-term Vision is lacking. You should not rely only on administration and bureaucracy, said Conte in Parliament.
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Billing and contradiction
Violent attacks against the populist government in Rome, the leader of the liberals in the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, addressed. “My heart hurts when I see how anti-European Italy.” Italy have prevented, for example, in the Council of foreign Ministers, a unanimous recognition of the transitional President of Venezuela. “You listen to instructions from Russia!”, ranted Verhofstadt.
The Faction leader of the socialists in the Parliament, Udo Bullmann, said the Prime Minister, his ability to act. He was only the voice of the populist, with no Power of its own. “We call this the Salvini-government, because he is the main character. He sets the tone.” The government of Italy could not meet its political promise, but to maneuver yourself in economic difficulty.
The deputies Laura Agea of the “5 star movement” in Italy jumped to their heads of government. The popularity of the government had increased last year by 15 percentage points. “If we are populists, because we listen to the people, then we are most happy to populist,” said Agea. The deputies of the extreme right-wing Lega, Mara Bizzotto, praised, “our leader, Matteo Salvini, has stopped the Migration.” He had the courage to say no to Brussels.
The President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, also happened to be Italians, warned the deputies in the fierce debate, to speak more slowly. Otherwise, the interpreters could not follow. “We Italians tend to agitate us,” said Tajani.
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