Italy is entitled to get a vice
presidency of the new European Commission, Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani said Monday.
"We are a founding country and we have an important role to
play," he said at the pre-summit meeting of the European
People's Parry (EPP) to which his centre-right post Berlusconi
Forza Italia (DI) party belongs.
Tajani, who is also deputy premier, said "what counts for Italy
is to have a Serie A (first-class) vice president and a
commissioner" .
He said it had been a mistake for Italy not to have requested a
vice presidency for the last European Commission, in which ex
premier Paolo Gentiloni was named economic affairs commissioner.
Tajani added that the EPP was "perplexed" about voting in
Portugal's Antonio Costa as European Council president, a post
for which he is favourite, because he is not "firm enough" on
the Ukraine war.
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