Berlusconi’s putinates no longer make the Ppe laugh
The rift between the Knight and the popular Europeans. Skip the meeting in Naples, what now? Damato's Scratches
The relief provided to Silvio Berlusconi by the acquittal in Milan of the accusation of corruption in judicial documents for the aid to the Olgettines of his private parties when he was Prime Minister did not last long. From that moment, in addition to not being able to exclude the prosecutor's appeal, the political problems of the leader of Forza Italia have increased without the hand, this time, of the judiciary. In regards to whom, perhaps also for this reason, even the government allies have substantially refused to support a parliamentary inquiry into the political use of justice. Which, on the other hand, has been going on since well before the man from Arcore went into politics.
He too was already involved due to the incautious electoral promises in the crisis of the super-bonus in the building sector launched by the second government of Giuseppe Conte and which became super-malus, in the title of the manifesto , due to the abuse of the transfer of credits unnecessarily reported by the government of Mario Draghi; already involved, I was saying, in this mess, which forced the government in office to intervene for painful accounting obligations with a decree law of uncertain parliamentary path, Berlusconi has run into even greater troubles at the European level. Which also seemed more congenial to him.
The "slap" given by the European People's Party by Ansa to the Strasbourg group leader Manfred Weber for the decision announced by the latter – in retaliation against Cavaliere's criticisms of Zelensky on the war in Ukraine – to cancel an international meeting will also be exaggerated scheduled in Naples. Which, moreover, is the city chosen some time ago by Berlusconi to start offloading Putin's responsibilities, albeit so evident, for the invasion of the neighboring country onto Zelensky himself. The " slap " shouted by Ansa may be exaggerated, but Weber's bang was big in Italy and outside, given how much Berlusconi has always cared, even in relations with his allies in Italy, to boast his participation in the European People's Party. Whose group leader has now publicly reminded him that support for Ukraine "is not optional".
Now, paradoxically but not too much, Meloni is closer to the EPP as leader of the European conservatives, who is also weaving a web with Weber himself to change the political balance in the Union to the detriment of the Social Democrats.
The newspaper still in the family of the former Prime Minister has a good makeover, headlining the entire front page more on Berlusconi's "scalding" response to the European People's Party – "Now let's talk about peace" – than on Weber's "slap". Whose photos with the Cavaliere, and with Antonio Tajani, before the Strasbourg group leader grew a beard, have become even more archived. Il Giornale also found itself aligned, I don't think comfortably, with the Fatto Quotidiano which continues to write about Berlusconi as well as the Caiman.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-putinate-di-berlusconi-cavaliere-non-fanno-piu-ridere-il-ppe/ on Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:04:36 +0000.