The European rearmament is “a first necessary step” But then “immediately, a only command with aonly strategy for a only army “ European. The The former Prime Minister said, and former president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, Speaking last night in Fabio Fazio’s program What time does it do.
The rearmament, explained Prodi, “it is a stop to get to the common defense, I hope this, I see and hope. I have preached the common defense for years, it is necessary to go in this direction. When Russia attacked Ukraine I told myself if we had had a common army, it would not have done it ‘. Then America united the Europeans behind it. Now we must start with what can be done today, then immediately after a single command. Inside or outside NATO, the circumstances will say “.
According to the former premier, one must proceed with who is there, because “unanimity is anti -democratic” and it stall must be overcome with the “qualified majorities”, as was done with theeuro. “Orban doesn’t want the European army? Stay out, “Prodi said again. Of course, you cannot make an army “in which one commands and the other pays”, such as France that has atomic newspapers and the right of veto to the UN and Germany that has neither the one nor the other, but a budget of double defense expenses compared to the French one. Prodi also had Hard words for Trump’s “cynicism” against Zelensky. “He and his vice -president like Gianni and Pinotto” underlined the former leader of the olive tree.
The common army would therefore be the best tool to “guarantee our security – Prodi still says – with limited expenses and in the protection of accrued rights and democratic achievements”. And if he had been instead of Von der Leyen, he observed the former premier, “I would have started from the common defense” and not from the rearmament, but “we are honest: this It is a step that can push to common defense “. The one in which “there is a common command in which everyone participates. I understand that it takes time, but in the next few days I expect more political and less weapons. “
The reformists, contrary to the Schlein line, look to Gentiloni and Guerini. Shades also to the Europeanulation
In short, the debate within the Democratic Party – not to mention the entire center -left deployment, where the positions are further diversified – is more alive than ever. Within the main opposition party, the line of the Schlein secretary, contrary in the beginning, pushes the reformist wing – embodied by Alessandro Alfieri – to look at the most moderate currents, who turn to the center: a Paolo Gentiloni and Lorenzo Guerini (former defense minister, among other things, and president of Copasir). In an uncomfortable position he put the head of the minority, Stefano Bonacciniwho (although referring to the reformists) reiterated the concept expressed by Schlein, on the no to the rearmament.
Even at European level, the positions are equally shaded and varied. From the appeal For a free and strong Europe launched by Pina Piciernovice -president of the Eurocine, to whom the French socialist exponent Raphaël Glucksmann also joined, who explicitly speaks of “a common European defense”, under the most critical voice – albeit more circumstantially – to Brando Benifeipresident of the delegation for relations with the United States of the European Parliament, which says: “We must support the European defense project and common investments in the sector such as i 150 billion aimed at continental security projects. Instead, it is not convincing to make a mountain of debt for national rearmament, a short -sighted choice and not up to the challenges in front of us “.
Schlein: “On the no to the rearmament we will insist. The Democratic Party is plural but then you decide “
On the position regarding the European rearmament, moreover, the secretary had been clear last Friday, when he had relaunched his leadership of the Democratic Party in some interviews. As for Different sensitivity within the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein ha confirmed In an interview with Corriere della Sera That “We are a plural party, it is normal to discuss. But then the position that the Democratic Party took on with its official organ is that and that was voted without votes against or abstained. It is important to discuss but it is also important to decide“.
In addition, it must be remembered, The dem leader has a different vision from his other socialist colleagues in Europelike Sanchez in Spain and the French socialist party. “We are certainly the most critical Italians and We believe that the road proposed by Von der Leyen is not the one that serves the EU: us We want a common defense, not the rearmament of the 27 countries. That plan does not include common investments “explains Schlein, proposing flexibility to encourage national spending. “But if not conditions investments in common projects there is no step forward” and now “we will continue to insist, hoping to find other convergences with the socialists”.
“Our proposal – explained the leader of the Democratic Party – is that of a Next Generation from 800 billion a year on social, industrial, environmental and digital chapters e also on common defense. The priorities must be the social ones indicated in the time of Covid, it serves a European plan that anticipates the impact of Trump’s duties. And the same courage of that time “observed the secretary, reiterating that”It is not normal not to know what position Meloni led to the tables of Paris, London and Brussels. We asked her to come to Parliament to explain it, it did not come. The problem is that The government has (…) different positions: Tajani says yes to the proposals of Von der Leyen on the rearmament, Salvini is against and (… Meloni) does not want to contradict Trump for ideological reasons, and thus relegates Italy to the margins of a discussion in which he could be the protagonist. We have already gone from the privileged relationship with Washington to the role of vassal of a plan to disintegrate the EU “.
