Energy, Prodi on Radio 24: Schlein’s proposal to Meloni is common sense

The proposal by Pd secretary Elly Schlein addressed to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to unite forces on energy and climate is common sense. The European Union is at risk if the AfD becomes the majority in Germany. The position of the secretary of the Young Democrats Virginia Libero (“we will not be soldiers in your wars, for us talking about homeland means repudiating war, we will organize deserters”) does not align with the party line. The European Union still struggles to implement the decisions made. These are some of the topics touched upon by former Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission Romano Prodi, who spoke on the Radio24 program “Immagini, uno sguardo sull’attualità” hosted by Valentina Furlanetto with Riccardo Barlaam.

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“Schlein’s proposal is an absolutely common-sense proposal,” according to Prodi. The proposal on climate change had been criticized by some of Schlein’s allies. However, Prodi pointed out that “the content of the proposal, in my opinion, is quite right because we have an impressive national emergency that affects everyone; for example, we see how this emergency has generated even the proposal to abolish the car tax, it concerns everything, so the idea that it can be addressed in a somewhat shared way, coming from an external danger, seems to me to be common sense.”

The position expressed by the secretary of the Young Democrats “I don’t know how it can be reconciled with the party’s policy,” commented Prodi. “When I heard her,” added the former premier, “I said hopefully she will grow, because if there is one who has always fought for peace, it is me, but here we face a very clear choice, a policy forced by a series of circumstances that have opened an incredible war. A position of this kind, I don’t know how it can be reconciled with the party’s policy; I believe this is a statement outside the plan that the Pd carries forward, so a proposal that is not from the Pd and that has never even been discussed within the Pd, as far as I know, so let’s take it as a mistake, as Topo Gigio would say.”

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“If AfD took power,” said Prodi on “Radio 24,” “values go out the window, as they say in popular language, because AfD has different values. But be careful, these elections are a very high alarm, but they concern all of eastern Germany, which in a period with particular tension, almost a sense of inferiority compared to former western Germany, so let’s not generalize even if the danger is spreading to the whole country. You ask me a question to which I must answer very simply: if AfD took the majority of the European Union, it’s simply over, I can’t comment further because this is the reality, it is anti-European, massively against multinational institutions, nationalist, racist, there is no more Europe. Since Germany is not only the most important economic power in Europe, but since the Ukraine war started, it has set up a program to become the greatest power, the chancellor himself said, both militarily and politically, if this happens the problem, my answer is very simple, Europe is finished, amen.”

“The problem of Europe, and this was the whole beautiful speech by von der Leyen, is that nice speeches are made and then they stop there, because the decision-making methods are not capable of implementing the decisions made,” Prodi then emphasized on Radio 24. “The Canadian prime minister’s speech was perfect, it excited everyone. It was well followed up in the meeting during von der Leyen’s speech. But, I want to say, here the problem is to implement it. That is, it must be concrete, it must be about facts. For example, the proposal to somehow institutionally link Canada and the European Union, the figure presented does not exist. So, in my opinion, work must be done inside, knowing very well that it is important, because otherwise Canada becomes a colony of the United States, moving away from Europe, but the step to take is very long and above all Europeans, I don’t think, are very enthusiastic or agree.” Is the problem the unanimity veto? “The unanimity veto, but then even where there is no veto,” he explains, “everything has passed to the Council. In other words, the Commission has become a body that makes proposals and then stops there and secondly the Commission ends up taking refuge in multiplying regulations, investigations, that is many things it can have competence over and that somehow replace the aspects it has already missed. This is the problem.”

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