Seventy-seven (77) years after the fall of the Benito Mussolini regime, Italy has a fascist party in power again. Last night, on the various television channels, I heard commentators, undoubtedly much more knowledgeable, commenting on the resounding victory in Italy of Giorgia Meloni, a deep confessed admirer of 'Il Duce" and her party "Fratelli d'Italia."
Giorgia Meloni couldn't have wished for a better result. She won the elections with an absolute majority and saw her allies, Matteo Salvini's (extreme-right) League and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI), achieve poor results, far below what waited.
This will give Fratelli d'Italia enormous political strength to impose its positions on all issues on which the coalition partners disagree, namely about the European Union's unconditional support for Ukraine against Vladimir Putin's Russia or its determination to make it more difficult for Italian women to have access to abortion.
Remember that Giorgia Meloni declared: “If I win, for Europe, the fun is over” and defended the principle of subsidiarity. Times of crisis are coming between Brussels and Rome, and Italy is the third largest European Union economy after Germany and France.
I remind those who are more forgotten that in Italy, in 2020, the dead of SARS-CoV-2 were evacuated by columns of military trucks, which crossed cities at night so as not to cause social unrest. There was no minimum of solidarity, on the part of the other countries of the European Union, concerning the first country to be hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
And what about the Mediterranean migrant crisis that northern European countries conveniently forget is also an EU border? Now, when the Nordic countries join NATO because of Russian Imperialism, it becomes convenient to appeal to European solidarity in exchange for sacrificing the Kurds.
Or when in Portugal, contrary to the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of the Republic, deputies like Eurico Brilhante Dias draw “red lines” and seize the democratic regime as being “their thing”... they are just being naive!
When a friend of mine wrote a few days ago that “the EU will have to facilitate the entry into its space of all those who are fleeing Russia for humanitarian reasons and also for the principles and values that govern the Union: therefore, it must be allowed and even facilitated its entry (...)” surely, like so many others, it has not yet realized the coming tsunami.
Either Brussels drastically changes its policies, namely, externalrelations, standardization of tax policy, and an emigration policy, or Brexit was just the first of several that will follow...
