The spokesman for the community executive is willing to work with the future Italian government, as well as with “the governments that emerge from the results of the polls.” But for now, he waits for the next steps.
“We hope there will be a constructive cooperation with the new Italian authorities,” said Eric Mamer, who noted that “for the time being, Italy is expected to proceed with the appointment of a government, in accordance with constitutional procedures.”
“The Commission and the President work with emerging governments [dos resultados] of the polls of the countries of the European Union and it will not happen otherwise in this specific case”, replied the spokesman when asked if Von der Leyen will be prepared to work with a far-right government, which results from a union of party politicians with an anti-European discourse.
Eric Mamer also stated that it is not up to the Commission to make a self-criticism about what may be failing in the European Union to lead a markedly eurosceptic coalition to victory.
“That is not our role. Undoubtedly, there will be a number of issues that were at the heart of the Italian elections. But to see these elections as a kind of judgment on Europe seems to me, in any case, an extreme simplification. he considered. .
“It is not for the European Commission to comment on the electoral campaign in Italy and I think it would be presumptuous of me to try to analyze the reasons why Italians voted as they did, as they did,” Mamer added.
Giving examples that “the Commission is acting” to address “extremely effectively”, dealing with “the problems faced by Europeans as a whole and Italians in particular”, the spokesman said that “since the beginning of this mandate” , the European Union has faced “a series of very intense crises”.
Examples of this are “the response that allowed Europe to overcome this crisis, we are the continent, the continent that produced and exported the most vaccines, that concluded an unprecedented economic recovery program,” he stressed, considering that “it seems to him that, in any case, Europe and the Commission in particular have worked and continue to work extremely effectively for the citizens of Europe and of Italy in particular”.
Source: TSF
