What is this great bargaining over European commissioners?

Correspondent in Brussels

« If you see me as a fascist, it’s up to you, but we are far from reality. » Raffaele Fitto, the candidate presented by Giorgia Meloni to be part of Ursula von der Leyen’s future team, could not avoid the subject. The appointment by the President of the Commission of this member of Fratelli d’Italia, Minister of European Affairs of the Italian government, to the prestigious position of executive vice-president (in charge of cohesion and reforms), arouses the anger of elected officials from left and center of Parliament.

During his three-hour hearing on Tuesday morning, he responded to several questions about his political involvement within the Italian post-fascist party. To try to mollify the deputies, he promised them not to be the commissioner of a party or a country, but to serve Europe.

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