“I find it appropriate to share with all of you, after having already done so with the other coalition leaders, an extremely important decision. I have received a letter from European Commission President von der Leyen requesting the Government to propose an Italian candidate for the role of European Commissioner. This is a delicate and highly significant choice for us and for Italy in the coming years. Our choice falls on a person with vast experience who has managed the responsibilities entrusted to him in this government with excellent results: Minister Raffaele Fitto,” stated Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, according to sources from Palazzo Chigi.
“Today I will communicate,” she added, “the name to President von der Leyen and I ask everyone to give a round of applause and best wishes to Raffaele, who will face an extremely complex and also exciting task. It is a painful choice for me, and I believe also for him and for the government, but it is a necessary one.
Afterward, we will continue to work on the role that we ask to be assigned to Italy. And despite seeing many Italians rooting against a role fitting for our Nation, I have no reason to believe that this role will not be recognized. Not out of sympathy or antipathy towards our government, but simply because we are Italy, a founding nation, the second largest manufacturing country, the third largest economy in Europe, and the third member state by population, with numerous achievements in various fields. Today, we can also rely on a renewed political stability and economic solidity that few others have in the rest of Europe.”
