"Yellow Vests": the controversy swells between Rome and Paris

The tone rose on Tuesday between the French and Italian governments, after the heavy support of the "yellow vests" of the heavyweights of the Italian populist government, Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini, on Monday.

While Monday, Luigi Di Maio, leader of the Five-Star Movement (M5S, anti-system), and Matteo Salvini, boss of the League (far right), had claimed to support the opposition movement to Emmanuel Macron, the minister French for European Affairs, Nathalie Loiseau, invited Monday night on Twitter the Italian government to "sweep in front of his door", recalling that France was careful not to "give lessons".

France refrains from giving lessons to Italy. That MM. Salvini and Di Maio learn to sweep in front of their own door.

Di Maio criticizes the "hypocrisy" of the French government. "I think the priority of the Italian government is to take care of the welfare of the Italian people, I'm not sure that taking an interest in 'yellow vests' has anything to do with the well-being of the Italian people. to be of the Italian people, "she insisted in front of journalists Tuesday in Brussels. "I have heard a great deal from the Italian government asking for respect for the way in which it governed Italy, and this respect is due to them, but it is due to any country, especially when we are neighbors, allies and friends", she continued.

"What hypocrisies," replied on Facebook Luigi Di Maio. Nathalie Loiseau, "perhaps, does not remember President Macron when he compared us to leprosy by talking about our government," he added. "The French people are calling for change and better consideration of their demands, and I can not help but share those wishes," he added, criticizing in passing the "colonialist" policy of France in Africa.

And Matteo Salvini calls for the departure of Emmanuel Macron. Monday, Di Maio and Salvini had spectacularly supported the "yellow vests", rejoicing in this "new Europe" being born a few months from the European elections. "Yellow vests, do not weaken!", Had written Luigi Di Maio on the blog of the M5S, an atypical political movement born in 2009 from the rejection of the old political class by some of the Italians.

"I support honest citizens who protest against a governing president against his people," said Matteo Salvini, before wishing the departure of French President Emmanuel Macron: "The sooner he gets home, the better it will be!"