Von der Leyen has backed the socialists in Brussels into a corner
President von der Leyen managed to first obtain the vote of the greens against the opening to the right, and then open to the right (with the role of assignments given to countries rather than parties), marginalizing the greens, and effectively making the socialists themselves irrelevant . Francesco Cundari's italics taken from his newsletter La Linea
At the end of the fair, once Ursula von der Leyen's new European Commission was launched, observers were divided between those who said that the executive vice-presidency assigned to Raffaele Fitto does not compensate for the reduction in delegations (compared to those previously obtained by Paolo Gentiloni) and those he says that the lightening of delegations cannot make the weight of the executive vice presidency underestimated.
Consequently, on Giorgia Meloni's position, cutting for brevity the most obvious opinions of followers and opponents, the judgments vary from moderate success to a "Pyrrhic victory". Not bad, from his point of view, considering how things had turned out after the failed sovereign triumph in the European elections.
If the gamble with which Meloni had decided to side with Fratelli d'Italia against the reconfirmation of Von der Leyen seemed to many to be a mistake (and I still think it was), it is certainly a mistake that has not been punished. So, one would say in chess, a very strong move.
Although in this case it was undoubtedly Von der Leyen who checkedmated socialists, greens and liberals, but also Emmanuel Macron (above all) and Olaf Scholz, speaking in person (politically, of course).
In fact, the president managed to first obtain the vote of the greens against the opening to the right, and then open to the right (with the role of roles given to the countries rather than to the parties), marginalizing the greens, and effectively making the socialists themselves irrelevant, now taken hostage within a commission dominated by the People's Party in all the fundamental areas, and clearly moved to the right by the relaunch of the dialogue with the Melonian group of European Conservatives and Reformists.
(Excerpt from the newsletter La Linea di Cundari )
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/von-der-leyen-ha-messo-in-un-angolo-i-socialisti-a-bruxelles/ on Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:34:56 +0000.