Propose appointments to top positions – the top jobs – of theEuropean Union without looking at the outcome of the elections it is “surreal“. Chasing the left, for the People’s Party, could be “fatal“. And Italy has the right to a “highest ranking role” in the future Commission. Giorgia Meloni, dramatically excluded from the negotiators’ meetings in Brussels, waited a couple of days before speaking. Above all, you waited for your group, that of the Conservatives and reformists, to become the third largest in the European Parliament above the liberals of Renew Europe, thanks to a handful of new entries. She and she went on the attack: “I found it surreal that some arrived with names without even try some reflection first on what the citizens’ indication was”, urged the prime minister speaking at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of The newspaper. The trio proposed by the People’s Party, Socialists and Liberals predicts Ursula von der Leyen the former Portuguese prime minister was confirmed as president of the Commission António Costa to the European Council (in the socialist quota) and the Estonian Kaja Kallas as High Representative for Foreign Policy (for Renew). Meloni is not against the names so much as the method: Italy, for her, has the right to a front row seat because his party, Brothers of Italy, is among the few government forces that emerged strengthened by the vote. The prime minister’s objective is therefore to collect one delegation of weight among the 26 seats of the Commission in exchange for the favorable vote of its MEPs for von der Leyen’s encore, without however entering the majority.
Neither the outgoing President of the Commission nor the EPP have any intention of not satisfying Meloni. In the Popular Party, however, there is an underlying fracture between those who look to the right and those who, like the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, does not want to open the doors to groups considered extremist, including Fratelli d’Italia. Also for this reason there are those in the group who hope for a move by Meloni herself that will lead her to distance herself from the Polish Pis party led by Mateusz Morawiecki (Tusk’s predecessor and arch-enemy in Poland) and to definitively dump the Hungarian Viktor Orbán. On Monday in Brussels, however, Meloni’s first two meetings were with Morawiecki and Viktor Orbán. And in the EPP they didn’t jump for joy. Socialists, liberals and Greens, meanwhile, continue to include the Italian prime minister’s party among the right-wing parties to avoid.
The game is complex, marked by ambiguities and unsaid words: the EPP firmly states that it will start from Ursula majority (with the socialists and liberals) which accounts for 55% of the total seats, knowing full well that in this way von der Leyen would end up a victim of the snipers, who in 2019 numbered seventy. There SpitzenkandidatinTo be certain of an encore, he would need the votes of both the Greens and the Melonians. And the latter are the most difficult to gain, as also confirmed by Carlo Fidanza, Meloni’s trusted man in the European Chamber: “We have no desire to vote for her. I remember that five years ago we didn’t do it and today we have no commitments of any kind,” he says Affaritaliani.it about von der Leyen’s encore.
