The two heavyweights of the Italian government, Luigi di Maio and Mattéo Salvini attacked again in Paris. Since the first of January, it's fire at will, with all the ammunition possible, but the target has changed. It was Emmanuel Macron, now it's France.
Tuesday, Matteo Salvini suspected Paris to let the situation in Libya rotten by interest in oil. Fortunately, Total and his Italian counterpart Eni are working together. As a bonus, he wanted the French to free themselves from a "very bad president". Sunday, his friend and rival, Luigi di Maio was the trial of the CFA Franc and accused Paris of impoverishing Africa with its currency and thus aggravate the migration crisis ... In conclusion, he called on Europe to punish the French ...
It is not only Africa: everything is an excuse to insult the neighbor. All done belly. Last week, with the end of Cesare Battisti's run, Matteo Salvini demanded the extradition of the refugees fleeing here. There was the air of suspicion dubbed as a duo when the European Commission opened an investigation into the purchase of the Saint Nazaire shipyards by the Italian Fincantieri. And of course, the saga of "yellow vests" ... Deputy Prime Minister Salvini attacking a President who governs against his people and Deputy Prime Minister Di Maio encouraging protesters, "Do not let go!"
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stood out. He emphasizes the historic friendship with France. It is true but precisely, this friendship seems to belong to the old history. If we stick to ten years, resentment has accumulated. During the financial crisis, Paris and Berlin treated Silvio Berlusconi with contempt. In the wake, the French groups have bought out the Italian jewels in luxury, banking, energy ... Hence resentment. And anger when Nicolas Sarkozy made a blind war on Libya, a former Italian colony. And a lot of frustration when Emmanuel Macron claimed to hold elections there.
Above all, there is the devastating effect of the courts of morality lavished by the French, while the Italians saw a human tide landed at Lampedusa ... that the French customs officers drove back to Ventimiglia. In short, tapping on France, the two awful jojos of the Italian government just type. That's how they are popular. That's why they continue.
What should France do? To refrain from bombarding Rome, even with cruel words, such as the populist leprosy that Emmanuel Macron stigmatized, triggering hostilities. On Tuesday, France and Germany signed a new treaty to drag the rest of Europe towards more integration. They got the opposite effect by exciting the resentment of their neighbor ... It's already strange to make Europe without Britain, Europe's second largest economy. Without Italy, the fourth, it would become absurd.