Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on
Tuesday urged all Italian political parties to take action
within their European political groups, speaking about the
appointment of Raffaele Fitto as commissioner and vice president
in the new European Commission headed by Ursula von der Leyen
while addressing the Senate ahead of a European Council
scheduled on October 17-18.
Meloni, who spoke beside her two deputy premiers, Foreign
Minister Antonio Tajani and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini,
is scheduled to address the Lower House in the afternoon.
"I hope that all Italian political forces will became active
within their European political families so this result can be
reached by our nation quickly and without glitches", said
Meloni.
"There are moments in which national interest must prevail over
partisanship: I hope this is one of them, without distinctions
and without hesitations", noted the premier.
Von der Leyen last month announced that she had proposed six
executive vice presidents for the new EU executive, including
Italy's Raffaele Fitto, with a portfolio for cohesion and
reforms.
Fitto, Italy's European affairs minister and a heavyweight in
the premier's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, will manage the
post-Covid NRRP funds with Valdis Dombrovskis, the
commissioner-designate for the economy.
On Tuesday Meloni said that the responsibility to handle the
NRRP entrusted to Fitto together with Commissioner Dombrovskis
by von der Leyen was a "collaboration on equal terms" which
represents "an opportunity for the Italian commissioner to make
the reasons of a necessary additional flexibility in investments
prevail, an historically Italian position that has found a first
partial acceptance in the reform of the Stability Pact".
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