(Finance) – As expected, The Italian government has indicated the Minister for European Affairs Raffaele Fitto as European Commissioner: this was announced, according to reports, by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during the Council of Ministers.
“I think it is appropriate to share with all of you, after having already done so for some time with the other leaders of the majority, an extremely important decision – Meloni explained to the ministers announcing the designation of Fitto -. I received the letter from the President of the European Commission von der Leyen asking the Government to designate the proposed Italian candidate for the role of European Commissioner, which “today”, she added, she will communicate to the President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
“Today I will communicate to President von der Leyen the name” of Raffaele Fitto as European Commissioner “and I ask everyone to applaud and wish Raffaele good luck, who will have an extremely complex and at the same time exciting task ahead of him. It is a painful choice for me, I think also for him, and for the government, but it is a necessary choice”, Meloni reportedly said. “It is a delicate and very important choice for us and for Italy in the coming years – she added -. Our choice falls on a person who has a great deal of experience and who has been able to govern the delegations that have been entrusted to him in this government with excellent results”.
“Of course we continue to work on the role that we ask to be assigned to Italy. And, although I see many Italians rooting against a role that is appropriate for our nation, I have no reason to believe that that role will not be recognized. Not out of sympathy or antipathy towards our government, but more simply because we are Italy, a founding nation, the second largest manufacturer and third largest economy in Europe, the third largest member state in terms of population, with primacy in many fields.. And today, we can also count on a newfound political stability and an economic solidity that few others have in the rest of Europe”.