It's a good thing to say Economy Minister Giorgetti is “Fitto is Fit” pit was the task of Executive Vice President of the European Commission. The hearing on Tuesday 12th of the current Minister of the Meloni Government at the European Parliament it went well also according to some members of the Democratic Party such as the former mayor of Florence Nardella. But to obtain the definitive "green light" for the new assignment everything is postponed to the evaluation that the European Parliament will make at a date to be determined on all six vice-presidents of the new Commission including Fitto.
Paradoxically the biggest problems do not come from socialists and come on greens who also expressed themselves yesterday in a manner criticizes on the vice-presidency to Raffaele Fitto come on really Popular and in particular from those Spanish that they want wait until November 20th to give their assent to the vice-president and commissioner for competition and green deal, the Spanish Ribeira expressed by the socialists. That day in fact the debate on the flood in Valencia will be held in the Parliament of Madrid, a sort of settling of scores between the Spanish population and socialists on the actual responsibilities in the tragedy that caused over 200 deaths.
Crossed vetoes that the von der Leyen is trying to unravel right now in Brussels to the point of boycotting the opening of Cop 29 in Baku. A summit at which Italian Prime Minister Meloni will make a very quick appearance on Wednesday 1 November but only as the current president of the G7. Meloni herself was satisfied with Fitto's hearing Fitto, as she wrote on X "for the competence that he once again demonstrated in the hearing at the European Parliament. A competence that, on the merits, earned him the appreciation of many of those present from various political families, even some exponents of the Italian left recognized him, and I thank them for this".
La Meloni then find "inconceivable that some members of the Democratic Party are now asking to remove the executive vice-presidency of the European Commission from the Italian Commissioner-designate. I would like to know from the secretary of the Democratic Party if this is her official position: to remove a top position from Italy to prevent it from having greater influence even on key sectors such as agriculture, fishing, tourism, transport and strategic infrastructure. Is it possible – concludes Meloni – that she prefers to put her own party before the collective interest?”.
But for the European Socialists and also for the Democratic Party, one thing is theFitto's suitability, another matter is his nomination as executive vice-president of the Commission, which puts the Conservatives in the 'front row' of the new European executive. For the Greens, Fitto is unsuitable regardless, given that he belongs to the right of the ECR: according to the co-president of the ecologist group Bas Eickhout, Dutch, the minister "has demonstrated several times, through his far-right political affiliation, that he does not support European values and does not have the interests of the European Union and its citizens at heart. This makes him unsuitable to represent the Commission in such an important role as that of executive vice-president". Ignazio Marino, of Avs (Greens/ALE), said he was "disappointed" by Fitto's answers.
The vice-president designated for Cohesion yesterday in a hearing in Brussels before the Regi commission actually answered all the questions, even the most aggressive ones, without ever losing his patience. Dario Nardella and Raffaele Topo of the Democratic Party appreciated Fitto's language. The Galician Ana Miranda Paz, of the Bloque Nacionalista Gallego, a left-wing nationalist, called him an "example" of the extreme
“cleaned up” right, Fitto pointed out that he is not at all “a fascist”.
The most aggressive towards the Italian candidate were, with different accents, the Verdi, followed by the Liberals. But he, always thanking everyone "for the question", never lost his composure, not even when the German ecologist Rasmus Andresen noted that in Italy there are many open investigations on the use of the PNRR funds.
The minister reminded him that if there are investigations underway, they do not concern him, but rather those accused of having misused the funds. And he quoted the European prosecutor Laura Codruta Koevesi, according to whom Italy "is a victim of its own success", given that it has obtained more funds than all other countries, including transfers and loans, under Next Generation Eu. There are many investigations, Fitto added, thanks to the work of the Guardia di Finanza, which should be "an example" for many other EU countries. Fitto, who had already recalled his Christian Democrat origins in his written answers, closed the hearing by remembering Alcide De Gasperi, "founding father" of the EU, as well as founder of the DC. The room in which the hearing was held is dedicated to the politician from Trentino.
