Procaccini: “Fdi clearly opposed to the United States of Europe”

The group leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists tells the agency: "He has not protected the borders from illegal immigration or the internal market from unfair Chinese competition"

ROME – “In our opinion the European Union should do less, but do better. It should return to its original idea: an alliance of nations that deals with few but important things. Exactly the opposite of what it happened. It took care of everything except, for example, protecting the European borders from illegal immigration, protecting the internal market from unfair Chinese competition, etc….” Thus the Honorable Nicola Procaccini, group leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists to which Fratelli d’Italia belongs to the Dire agency on Antonio Tajani’s criticism of the League’s ‘Less Europe’ slogan.

Will the group of European Conservatives and Reformists play a game on their own or together with the European People’s Party on the appointment of the new president of the European Commission? “It is obviously impossible on its own because it is not a choice that it is up to the political parties: the indication of the President of the Commission is the result of the European Council – explained Procaccini – that is, of the meeting between the national governments which establish who should be president of the European Commission, who of the Council and who the High Representative Political parties have a secondary role compared to governments, but strangely they always want to put themselves ahead of governments. We are in favor of respecting the treaties, and the treaties say that it is not a matter for the political parties, but for the governments.”

Twenty-seven states and the difficulty, often, of reaching agreements between members. Is narrowing the field for important decisions the solution? “We are against the federalist superstate that is wanted to be created,” said Procaccini. “We defend the original idea again, that is, a confederation of national states. Conversely, in recent years – he continued – we have witnessed this forcing by the left to arrive at a federalist state that reduces the nations essentially to administrative territorial bodies, as if they were municipalities, it is a project that we strongly reject. We defend our national belonging, we continue to think that it is the only possible belonging nations is valuable where it is able to do things better that nation states alone would not be able to do with the same level of efficiency. Sowe we reject the project of the United States of Europe because Italy is neither Iowa nor Alabama, Italy is a nation“.

Health, environment and food safety, what are the priorities of the next European Parliament on these issues? “Unfortunately that Commission was a bit like the place where all the follies of the so-called < strong>‘green deal’ by Frans Timmermans – explained Procaccini – a green transition model which was based on the assumption that human beings harm nature and, therefore, to make nature feel good we must make it feel good evil men. We, obviously, contest this approach, which recalls an ideological matrix defeated in the last century. We – continues the honorable member – think that nature needs human beings like human beings of nature, therefore this relationship of integration must be preserved. It therefore means rejecting all those drifts which then did nothing but hand Europe over to other industrial models, such as the Chinese one which certainly does not arise “objective of protecting the environment”.

Summer is upon us, what lies ahead for the seaside sector? “It is a battle that began many years ago in defense of one of the Italian excellences, that is, the seaside tourist offer. It is an ongoing battle – continued the MP – the outcomes of which would honestly be difficult to predict today”, Procaccini said. On a European level “we are working on mapping the coasts to demonstrate that the scarcity of the good essentially does not exist. Or rather, concessions can be made, tenders for future concessions, but all the efforts and investments made by generations of Italians must be respected in past years. How will it end? Now it is premature. One thing is certain: we reject the idea of a confiscation of the sacrifices made by Italians over the decades, even prior not only to Bolkestein but to the Italian Constitution. strong> Therefore, the situation of Italy or Spain or Greece is clearly different from that of the great beaches of Scandinavia. The idea of being able to standardize them, in my opinion, is a typical example of an invasion of the European Union’s field.” , he concluded.