“Brothers of Italy” politicians want more pragmatism regarding the energy crisis and less ideology in the European Union.
The way the mainstream media reacted to Meloni’s greeting to the Spanish Vox election event seems to prove the future Italian prime minister right: “In Italy, they use the alliance with Vox to deny us salability.”
The mantra about the alleged far-right seizure of power is no longer convincing. Fewer and fewer people in Europe are willing to accept this ideologically biased narrative, which perceives successful center-right parties such as FdI, Vox or Fidesz as political monsters.
In an emphatically statesmanlike manner, Meloni called for a bolder Europe when it comes to major challenges and a more modest one when it comes to solving local problems with national measures. In the video message, she mentioned not only the Spanish but also the Swedish, Polish, Czech and Latvian allies.
However, Hungary, which Meloni did not mention, is certainly in the focus of the Italian political discourse. Before entering a party meeting, FdI deputy Fabio Rampelli was asked to comment on his party’s closeness to Hungary.
In response to journalists’ somewhat provocative questions about whether ideological proximity to countries like Hungary and Poland should cause fear, the quick-witted FdI politician replied:
“In view of the energy crisis, I would be much more worried by the isolationist behavior of Germany and the Netherlands, as well as countries that dangerously believe they can take care of themselves in view of the energy crisis that is shaking us.”
Rampelli said he could not understand such attention to a small country that is dependent on oil and gas pipelines for lack of access to the sea.
“I would rather see Germany’s selfishness, which threatens to shake the EU with its bias against capping gas prices. That is the problem, not Hungary,” the vice president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies said.
His party leader wants a “pragmatic Europe that pursues the goal of ecological change without destroying its productive fabric,” according to the text of the greeting message addressed to the Spanish Vox. Whether Brussels’ insistence on the self-damaging sanctions against Russia will serve this noble intention is more than questionable.
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