«The MEE vote was a concrete vote, it would have put Italians’ jobs and savings at risk. We did not make an ideological vote, but a pragmatic one.” Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and Secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, said this morning in Milan, on the sidelines of the charity event to deliver Christmas gifts to children admitted to the Buzzi Children’s Hospital. «We have a duty to change Europe, because the Europe of pseudo-environmentalist follies, such as electric-only cars, is a gift to China and represents suicide, the closure of many companies and the dismissal of thousands of workers. I don’t think that when De Gasperi thought about Europe he thought about electric cars or the MEE,” Salvini added. “Europe must defend its borders, take care of security. The European people should thank us for blocking a useless and harmful instrument like the ESM,” he added. Parliament rejected the ratification of the MEE «and the spread fell. All the owls said ‘disaster, with the center-right government there will be a collapse of the markets’, but Italy is growing more than Germany and the spread after the rejection of the ESM has fallen instead of growing”.
«What if Giorgetti is weakened after the MEE vote? Absolutely not. We shared, chose and did everything for the good of Italians. I am and we are proud of this”, explained the deputy prime minister, “I was with him yesterday. I let the newspapers write whatever they want. We did a great thing for Italy,” he added. To a reporter who asked if he had ever argued with Giorgetti, Salvini replied dryly: “Never.”
Source: IL Tempo
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