ROMA (ITALPRESS) – First of all “was awaited the vote of Parliament, which is sovereign”, then ask whether in Washington for the inauguration of the Board on the Middle East will go Prime Minister Meloni or Foreign Minister he is “premature and however has no relevance”. And this is because, explains the Minister for European Affairs and the Coesion of FdI, Tommaso Foti, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, is becoming “more than a theater of politics, folklore. In fact, folklore is culture, this is the degeneration of politics.” “We have always said that formal adherence to the Board would be a problem for conflict with Article 11 of the Italian Constitution, as I imagine it is for other Constitutions – he points out. But I remember our opposition that this body was accepted as an element of the overall plan for peace in the Middle East also by the UN Security Council. The EU, like other countries, was also invited. We believe it is useful to participate as observers.”
“Italy – adds – as well as observers at the Board’s inauguration ceremony, continues its commitment to humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people with the Food for Gaza operation and has been committed since 2014 to training Palestinian security forces. And of course we work because it comes to the peace treaty, with two peoples and two states.”.
“Every country – adds Foti – does what it wants, but also France: it seems that it is always in opposition to the US and then maybe exit WhatsApp of President Macron to Trump who say anything else… We like Italy have a leading role in mediation between US and EU that brings advantage to Europe, even if it is not recognized here for reasons of internal political struggle”. “We are talking – recalls Minister Foti – of war theatres, such as Palestine, of which he occupied and obtained some success only Trump, as well as in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It is not that we can pretend not to see it, or do the whimsical by party taken, as the opposition does.” And to the question if you are not too much Trump, he answers: “No. We try to keep up the dialogue, and Rubio also spoke about the reciprocal need of Usa and Ue to collaborate. Then I would like to remind you that, while speaking to vanvera, Italy, with Germany and Belgium, has organized a kind of European prevertice with 20 countries of the 27 of the EU on the issue of competitiveness, which is the real challenge with USA and China. It is a huge fact. And it is the facts to say how we are moving, not words randomly.”.
Passing to the referendum on Justice, to the question if he fears the remonta of No, even for the effects he might have on the government, he comments: “Not at all. First, because I am convinced that the Italians are far ahead of this furious debate and will vote Yes to a balanced reform that does not question the autonomy of judiciary, but establishes what happens now, the separation of careers, and the end of the current system, making sure that thanks to the draw they do not decide careers only for belonging to a faction but for merit. If the No prevails, and I don’t think so, I don’t see a problem: the referendum is a tool for direct democracy to express itself on a law, not on whom to rule, for that there are political elections. There are many in the opposition, especially in the Pd, deployed for Yes. The dust raised to talk about another and not about merit will not help neither them, nor the country”.
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