According to Tajani, the EPP will win the European Parliament elections scheduled for 2024, and thus the EPP will be able to nominate the next President of the European Commission.
He called for “cooperation between the European People’s Party and conservative forces” as a successful strategy. He noted that a similar majority made it possible for him to be elected to the presidency of the European Parliament in 2017, against the Socialist candidate Gianni Petella.
He also proposed the creation of a joint political force between the ruling parties in Rome, namely the fusion of the Italian Right-wing Brotherhood (FdI) led by Giorgia Meloni, the League led by Matteo Salvini, and Go Italy (FI) led by Silvio Berlusconi.
It is a distant plan, and we will not be able to implement it in a few days, but the most appropriate way is to strengthen the alliance between the three parties.
He said.
The FI vice president, who has served as the Romanian government’s foreign minister since October, described starting peace negotiations in Ukraine with his first diplomatic mission in the coming months. However, Tajani believes that the current situation does not give much reason for optimism. He believed that the unilateral ceasefire announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin serves “internal Russian goals.” He added that the main international players, such as China, Turkey and the United States, will be able to take certain diplomatic steps, but the negotiations also require the intention of the Russian side, and Moscow is currently not showing any willingness to open up.
He emphasized that Rome continues to support Kyiv, and at the end of the month the sixth shipment of weapons will leave for Ukraine since last February. In response to the suggestion that the continued supply of arms to Ukraine weakens Italy’s defenses, Tajani said so
Rome does not want to deliver the Samp / T defense system to the Ukrainian forces with Paris.
Tajani called for an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, stressing that the crisis in the Balkans was promoting migration to Italy.
Antonio Tajani confirmed that the focus of Monday’s Rome meeting between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be on migration and the use of resources for economic recovery after the pandemic. The Italian government wants to renegotiate the latter’s methods.
