As it stands now in Italy, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is said to have “completed a manoeuvre which is unprecedented in the history of the Italian Republic,” after staying on as prime minister “for a second spell in office.” Last month, Conte resigned, which forced the collapse of the populist coalition of the Five Star Movement and Matteo Salvini’s populist-right Lega (League). The Italian Prime Minister was set to face a vote of no confidence brought by Salvini’s party. At the time, Lega Senate leader Massimiliano Romeo issued a troubling warning that should the Lega party be forced out of the Italian government, Italy would be “harmed…. lose sovereignty. And we would return under the thumb of Merkel.”
His warning was correct. Earlier this year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed out of Operation Sophia, which used naval vessels to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean. Her move was in response to Salvini’s “policy of keeping ports closed to illegal migrants.” But right around the time of the Italian government’s collapse, Merkel called “on members of the European Union (EU) to resume rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean using naval vessels.”
As expected, several “European Union establishment figures” have been congratulating the new Italian government, “saying it will be more ‘pro Europe.’” What they mean is pro-open door immigration. Among those offering congratulations was Former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, whose values are harmful to the future of the Europe, and he has made no bones about it. Back in 2016, Juncker vowed that “no matter how bad terrorism or the migrant crisis gets, the European Union will never give up on open borders.” And it could get bad. Only two months ago, Libyan leader Fayez al-Sarraj threatened the EU with 800,000 more migrants, including “criminals and terrorists,” “unless the assault on Tripoli by warlord Khalifa Haftar ends soon.” Sarraj issued his brazen warning which was interpreted as a threat to force Europe to get involved and take action against Haftar.
With the strong populist Matteo Salvini out of the picture for now, Italy will once again begin to aid the hijrah, against the will of its own people. Only 32 per cent of the Italian people support the new coalition government. As Salvini described the coalition of globalists: it is “being born in Paris and Berlin…. without dignity and without ideals, with the wrong people in the wrong place.”
“EU Establishment Praises Unpopular Leftist Italian Government,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, September 6, 2019:
Several European Union establishment figures have praised the new, broadly unpopular Italian government saying it will be more “pro Europe.”
Former European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker approved of the new coalition between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the leftist Democratic Party (PD) saying Italy could now play a”leading role” in Europe, Il Giornale reports.
Congratulating Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Juncker said, “Thanks to his leadership and with the support of his government I am convinced that Italy will be able to play a leading role in facing these essential European challenges and live up to its responsibilities as a founding state of the Union.”
Juncker was joined by European Commission Vice President Franz Timmermans who said the new government was “good for the EU and I think it is good to have a government in Italy committed along pro-European lines, to find common solutions with the rest of the Union.”
European Parliament president David Sassoli, himself a member of the Italian Democratic Party, commented on the new government saying, “The return of Italy to a leading role is paving the way for the new legislature of EU institutions to be fully European and marked by unity with respect to the danger of sovereignty.”
“Those who wanted to destroy the Union found themselves marginalized. The chancelleries and EU institutions are aware of this, and even from Washington I have felt an interest in Italian stability and a resumption of its constructive attitude in Europe,” he added.
Populist leader and outgoing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini labelled the coalition as being born in Paris and Berlin saying it was, “without dignity and without ideals, with the wrong people in the wrong place.”….