Posted on 01/10/2019 2:43:31 AM PST by Nextrush
"Eric Drouet, one of the leaders of the Yellow Vest protest movement in France, said Wednesday that he was ready to take up an invitation to meet Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio for talks.....
There has been tension between Paris and Rome after Di Maio said this week that his 5-Star Movement (M5S) was ready to offer support to the Yellow Vests.
Fellow Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini also expressed support for the protesters."
Italian ANSA News Agency Report 1/9/2018-
That's the latest word from Italy about the overtures of support coming from Italy where the leaders of the two governing parties, one leaning to the "Right" (the League) and the other to the "Left" (the Five Star Movement) are unified in asserting Italian sovereignty from the EU.
The response from France was one of stay out of our affairs as expressed by European and Foreign Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau. She urged the Italian leaders to "sweep in front of their own door".
One could argue that since France considers itself part of the EU which Italy is in as well the notion France is some sovereign nation might just be a rhetorical one and not a literal one.......
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“The response from France was one of stay out of our affairs as expressed by European and Foreign Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau.”
Ohhhh! Catfight between Euroweenies. Hope Italy takes them on. They have a conservative leader right now and Macron deserves to be insulted. The French stopped being men in WW2.
But wait - aren't they all Euros now? Not individual countries? Whatever happens in the nation formerly known as France is a matter of concern to the people formerly known as Italians. Heck, even the Krauts are forming an army with the Frogs.
Wouldn’t it be something if these various protests led to the dissolution of the EU.
If Italy gets this right, I would consider eventually retiring there.
It will come.
Europe has seemed to be uniting under one government only to dissolve in brutal slaughter of Balkanizing warfare for thousands and thousands of years.
The Fabians andthe Frankfort School imagine they can prevail against the dynamic but they are wrong.
Saving Italy may be the best reason to stay in NATO......
A string dynamic here is that people want to preserve their cultures. Movements towards globalization can only work if people’s native cultures are erased and replaced with some bland global culture. People naturally fight back against that.
In some of the provinces of France, people are making efforts to revive the languages that predated French. They are learning these languages in schools and some families have made the effort to use these languages rather than French in their homes. How in the world do these efforts to revive old, uniquely French, cultures, advance the concept of one world government? I would say that they are largely driven by a backlash against global homogenization.
“stay out of our affairs”
That’s sorta the problem with the EU. Funny, I hadn’t pegged him as a nationalist.
Get out of the EU! It was set up to destroy national boundaries, identity and pride! Out! It will be just macaroon and hag-frau-merkel.
If Italy really thinks of getting it right, the EU will let an Italian bank or two fail to send a message.
This stuff is just PR for the masses.
The Italian government has no intention of getting it right.
As long as Italy refuses to live within its means, the EU has Italy by its short hairs.
The island of Capri is just unbelievably beautiful as well.
I agree, but part of the reason they got to this point in the first place is the EU. The EU inflated costs in Italy, and there was no commensurate increase in personal income or employment numbers to absorb those increased costs. If you travelled to Spain, for example, before the EU, everything there was cheaper. Food, housing, pretty much everything. It all went up substantially after the EU went into effect. So they had to ramp up social welfare, and have been dependent on EU money ever since.
I'm not saying the Italian government didn't make a lot of mistakes before they joined the EU - but things changed markedly afterwards.
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