He’s Meloni’s ‘Bridge-Builder’ Toward the EU Mainstream, but Who Is Raffaele Fitto?
The veteran EU politician, known as a pragmatic technocrat, could be Rome’s best chance to secure the budget portfolio in the next EU Commission.
The veteran EU politician, known as a pragmatic technocrat, could be Rome’s best chance to secure the budget portfolio in the next EU Commission.
The Italian PM scolded Commission President von der Leyen after Italy was criticised in EU Rule-of-Law Report.
Meloni considers backing Commission president’s reelection in exchange for key role for Italy
The Poles will remain in the group, despite differences over Fidesz’ exclusion.
The European Commission chief will need the backing of one or both groups to be guaranteed reelection, but in public, Meloni’s ECR is being sidelined again.
“No true democrat can accept” a select few deciding for everyone else, the furious Italian PM said.
Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz will not join Meloni’s ECR alliance but stressed the need for European conservative parties to work together.
The party had been frequently criticized for its extreme views in the past, yet now is part of Giorgia Meloni’s “constructive center-right force” in Brussels.
Giorgia Meloni’s national conservative group snubs sovereigntist Right and pitches “center-right majority” in European Parliament
While the self-employed showed relative preference for Matteo Salvini’s Lega, the PM’s party easily overcame socialists as the favoured party of the Italian working class.