The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will entrust the position of executive vice-president responsible for the economy to the far-right candidate proposed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Raffaele Fito, the German newspaper Die Welt writes today. The publication, citing European diplomats and informed sources in the Commission, also notes that the French European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, a new candidate, will occupy the position of executive vice president with responsibility for Industry and Strategic Autonomy. Raffaele Fito, currently Minister of European Affairs in the Meloni government, will become the first member of a far-right populist party to take up the position of executive vice-president of the European Commission, De Welt underlines. A former MEP, once co-chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, Raffaele Fito is considered a loyalist of Ms Meloni, whose faction, the Brothers of Italy (FdI), he joined after being a long-time rising star of Forza Italia. of the former’s right-wing party […]
Source: News Beast
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