Posted on 02/07/2019 10:48:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PARIS/ROME - France recalled its ambassador to Italy on Thursday, a remarkable diplomatic split between neighbors and European Union allies, after what it described as “repeated, baseless” attacks by Italian political leaders against France.
The rupture, the first withdrawal of a French envoy to Rome since World War Two, was announced by the foreign ministry.
Diplomats said Paris acted after a series of insults from Italy, capped by Deputy Prime Minister Luigi di Maio’s decision this week to meet with members of France’s “yellow vest” movement, which has mounted a months-long and sometimes violent campaign against Macron.
Di Maio, head of the anti-establishment 5-Star movement, which is in a governing coalition with the far-right League, defended his meeting with the “yellow vests”, and drew a distinction between Macron and the French people.
“The French people are our friends and our ally,” he said. “President Macron has repeatedly lashed out against the Italian government for political reasons in view of the European elections,” he said, referring to a European Parliament vote in May that is expected to see a surge among populist parties.
“My meeting as the political leader of the 5-Star movement with members of the ‘yellow vests’... was fully legitimate. I claim the right to talk with other political forces that represent the French people.”
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Macron is pissing in his pants over what the “yellow vests” mean to him and the globalist-socialist-crypto-fascist rulers of the EU.
Europe is getting a good look at what a “Green New Deal” is like - high taxes, high fuel costs, big-government socialism/globalism.
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Californians are putting up with all of this and more — much more — without a peep. Maybe they are too busy navigating all the poop.
Is there going to be a Franz Ferdinand in the mix?
“a remarkable diplomatic split between neighbors and European Union allies, after what it described as “repeated, baseless” attacks by Italian political leaders against France.”
gosh, all because of some mean words ... French have gotten way more thin-skinned than usual ...
“Californians are putting up with all of this and more — much more — without a peep. Maybe they are too busy navigating all the poop.”
Oh we are peeping plenty.. at least a third of us are... but the national GOP not only never helps, they often work with the La Raza communists masquerading as Democrats in this state.
Anything short of mass deportation of illegals and halting the flood of legal 3rd world immigration won’t be enough to save California from what has happened to it.
P*ssy face meets a true alpha male. Who wins?
Si’, e’ vero! BASTA!
{Si’, io parlo italiano}
Good point.
Hey Macron, eat pooh pal.
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