Nicola Procaccini co-president of the ECR group: we intend to share the EU project with the EPP

Brothers from Italy MEP Nicola Procaccini is the new co-president of the Ecr group (Group of European Conservatives and Reformists) along with Professor Ryszard Legutko. The ECR is open to an alliance “with those who share the founding principles of the EU, principles that the overly squeezed majorities on the left have distorted. We have the ambitious project of sharing a more representative vision of the EU also with the EPP”. the deputy told reporters. Procaccini commented on the possibility of a future majority in the European Parliament, in 2024, deviating from the S&d-EPP axis: “Yes, I believe it is possible to do it precisely in the Green Deal, proposing another type of ecology” . “It is a vision that we believe is also shared by our fellow citizens because I think that none of them has ever voted in favor of such a total handover of sovereignty as is currently being asked of European nations”, explained the new co-president of the ECR.

Procaccini underlined his willingness to share a vision “also and not only with the EPP”. Can the same also be true for the Identity and Democracy group? Procaccini explained that “with some parties like the League, we are already allies in the government. We aspire to a vision, a project that defends the founding values ​​of the EU” and that rejects “the project of a European superpower-state”. left idea. “We are against it and here we are open to an alliance with whom to share” this position. The MEP said he was “proud and even a little excited to play the role of co-president of the ECR” and paid tribute to his predecessor Raffaele Fitto:. “His legacy is difficult because he has managed to build credibility here around the Ecr project, which I obviously take advantage of and which I will try to carry out in the best possible way”. Finally, thanks to Giorgia Meloni: “Somehow there is also his approval that I can play this role”.