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According to information from the newspaper Le Monde and the Maltese daily Times of Malta , one of the advisers to Edward Philippe, a future elected to the European Parliament, the Italian Sandro Gozi, is suspected of being employed by the government at the same time French and by the Government of Valletta.
It was one of the best shots of On the move in the last Europeans. Sandro Gozi, former Italian Secretary of State for European Affairs Matteo Renzi , must take his chair of the MEP after the Brexit. To wait, Matignon proposed him a position of adviser Europe. But did he work for two governments simultaneously?
The MP Republicans Pierre-Henri Dumont has asked Édouard Philippe in the hemicycle. " Either you had knowledge of this paid activity of your adviser to your ally, the sulfurous Maltese Prime Minister , in this case, you are complicit in conflict of interest, he said. Either you did not know it and you must immediately dismiss Mr. Gozi from his position and forbid him to sit on the French side in Strasbourg after the Brexit . "
Édouard Philippe expects proof
" It's a little fuzzy, " acknowledges the entourage of Édouard Philippe. If Sandro Gozi claims to have terminated his Maltese contract before arriving at Matignon in late July, the Prime Minister is now awaiting evidence from his adviser.
" All those who have the honor of serving France must be - when they are the object of a political attack - defended by the head of the government, but that the head of the government requires of them a perfect probity and the respect for all the rules that are binding on all those who have the honor of serving France, "said Édouard Philippe.
Sandro Gozi is under pressure and suspended. He who had already pinned for having been a member of an Italian neo-fascist party during his youth.