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Rome demands a vice-presidency of the European Commission

by AI | 25.Jun 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The Italian government wants to obtain a vice-presidency of the European Commission, said its foreign minister Antonio Tajani.

Italian Foreign Minister and former President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani arrives for a lunch at the Élysée Palace in Paris, on January 5, 2024, following a tribute ceremony to former European Commission President Jacques Delors, who died at the age of 98. (Photo: Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

Luxembourg – Italy demands “at least” a vice-presidency of the European Commission, indicated its foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Monday in Luxembourg, a few days before a European summit expected to decide on the EU’s key positions

“Italy cannot not have a vice-president position of the Commission and not have a commissioner with an important portfolio, that is the minimum our country can claim,” said Mr. Tajani upon his arrival at a meeting with his twenty-seven counterparts.

Rome demands these positions “to have a good European policy in favor of industry and agriculture, of course committed to climate change, but not in a fundamentalist way,” he had already explained to French media. No agreement had been found on the matter on June 17 in Brussels, and Italy had shown its annoyance after being excluded from these negotiations, despite the good result obtained by the far-right, in power in Rome, in the June 9 European elections. (24.06.2024)