The spokesman for the community administration is ready to cooperate with the future Italian government, as well as with “the governments emerging from the poll results”. But for now waiting for the next steps.
“We hope to be constructive in cooperation with the new Italian authorities,” said Eric Mammer, pointing out that “It is provisionally expected that Italy will proceed with the appointment of a government, in accordance with constitutional procedures”.
“The Commission and the President are working with emerging governments [dos resultados] from the polls of the countries of the European Union and it will be no different in this particular case”the spokesman replied when asked whether von der Leyen is willing to cooperate with a far-right government that emerges from a union of political parties with an anti-European discourse.
Eric Mammer also argued that it is not for the committee to develop self-criticisms about what can go wrong in the European Union in order to lead an outspoken Eurosceptic coalition to victory.
“That is not our role. There will certainly be a number of issues that were central to the Italian elections. But to see these elections as a kind of judgment on Europe seems to me to be an extreme simplification.”considered.
“It is not for the European Commission to comment on the election 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,” Mammer added. .
The spokesperson gave examples that “the Commission is acting” to deal “extremely effectively” with “the problems facing Europeans as a whole and Italians in particular”, the spokesperson said that “from the beginning of this mandate”, the European Union has faced “a series of very intense crises”.
Examples include “the response that has enabled Europe to overcome this crisis, we are the continent, the continent that produced and exported the most vaccines, which completed an unprecedented economic recovery program”, he stressed, whereas “it seems to him that In any case, Europe and the Commission in particular have worked very effectively and continue to work for the citizens of Europe and Italy in particular.”
Source: DN
