Clash on the Mes, the controversies of Conte and Salvini

While the EU calls for its ratification, the oppositions attack the government after the decision of the centre-right MPs to suspend, in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber, the examination of the Mes (on which the trap of June 30 hangs as the deadline to approve it) . “The free ride is over for our government and not for Europe. The hottest European front is that of the Mes. What did our patriots do yesterday in the Chamber? They deserted”, the attack by Joseph Conte from the Confindustria youth conference in Rapallo. And he added: “We have always fought to improve the state-saving mechanism. Now we will abstain. We can also have a chat and say that we will not use the Mes but with the delays on the Pnrr, what will be the way? Ratifying it”.

Salvini: “No to the Mes, the public debt in the hands of the Italians is better”

But from the government Matthew Salvini continues to remain hostile to the European measure, despite the letter from the Northern League minister Giancarlo Giorgetti and the Ministry of the Economy and Finance “promote” the State-saving mechanism, in which they see no critical issues. “Italy is the European country that is growing the most. Our thanks to our entrepreneurs, to our workers – underlines the leader of the Carroccio during the electoral campaign in Molise, in Venafro – I do not think there is a need to put ourselves in the hands of foreign funds and foreign subjects also because 600,000 Italians in recent days have subscribed to treasury bills for more than 18 billion euros. I prefer that Italian infrastructures, Italian schools be built by asking the Italians for money and so the debt remains Italian”.

Europe’s warning

Europe, however, reiterates the need to arrive soon at a common decision in all the member states. The Mes is “a mechanism that needs to be ratified by all countries”; he specified to Ansa Roberta Metsola, president of the EU Parliament. Speaking of the Pnrr, Metsola underlined how it is “a program that helps all businesses and all citizens of Europe, including Italians”.

The other reactions

Meanwhile, the clash over the decision of the majority continues, which is causing an internal clash even in the government, fueling tensions between Melons and Salvini. “The one on the Mes is a gigantic little theater, they have to ratify it but before doing so they have to make a bit of a mess. Their hope is to go to Europe and say ‘we got x and y’, which they won’t have got, but they will say they did it for which they will then ratify the Mes. It is part of the ‘entertainment’ item, it is not politics”, attacks the leader of Action Charles Calenda during a press conference in Rome. “Salvini? – he continues – After thirty years of politics he has come to the conclusion that Parliament must deal with it. That of the Northern League is another ‘supercazzola’: he says ‘I am against it but if Parliament ratifies it I will I can do’. But they ratify this Mes because we make the chickens laugh”.

Immediate response from Thomas Foti, group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber: “It is known that Count Mascetti, alias fox paw, in politics known as Carlo Calenda is an established professional in terms of supercazzole. After all, he goes in and out of parties as if they were the doors of a hotel. On the Mes – he says – he is in good company: the Melandri of the Stars, in politics Patuanelli, engineered a laughable offer to the opposition. He invites you to abstain from voting on the bill that you have presented. And so, the ratification of the Mes, judged inescapable by the opposition with martial solemnity, is reduced by its own choice to an unsuccessful attempt to give life to a My friendsact IV”.