The hit or miss Telegraph writer Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is back on track today with his prognosis Italy’s radical new leaders denounce EU Brexit strategy as foolish dogma.
Leaders of Italy’s triumphant conservative alliance have called for a radical change in the EU’s negotiating stance over Brexit, describing threats to restrict trade and punish Britain as ideological idiocy
“Great Britain is a friendly country with a long tradition of trading with Italy,” said Matteo Salvini, leader of the Lega party and the man poised to become prime minister if the centre-Right coalition forms the next government.
“You made a free choice with Brexit and I very much hope that it will be possible to maintain completely open trade with the EU without any penalties,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
No Blind Trust In Germany
The rest of the Telegraph article is paywalled, but the Express offers the pertinent details in Italian election ‘winners’ DEMAND EU change Brexit negotiation stance.
Matteo Salvini, leader of the Northern League and potential next Prime Minister, has vowed to remain close friends with the UK after Brexit. Demanding Brussels does not punish the UK, he said: “Great Britain is a friendly country with a long tradition of trading with Italy. You made a free choice with Brexit and I very much hope that it will be possible to maintain completely open trade with the EU without any penalties.”
The party’s economics chief, Claudio Borghi has also used the election result to give a stern warning to Germany not to give the UK a bad deal. Reminding the country of the EU’s reliance of Britain for trade, Mr Borghi said it would be a mistake to risk Theresa may walking away from negotiations.
The Tuscany MP said: “There will be no blind trust in what Germany wants. Punishment or anything of the kind would be sheer stupidity.”
“We export more to the UK than we import back and we certainly don’t want to hurt our own client.”
Meanwhile, a senator from the anti-establishment Lega party said: “The EU is becoming more and more of a German empire. We are seeing German bureaucrats taking over the key positions in the EU institutions.”
German Empire
“There will be no blind trust in what Germany wants. The EU is becoming more and more of a German empire.“
That says all you need to know. It is also why the Northern League outperformed Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right right FI party.
Berlusconi made a huge mistake suddenly becoming pro-Europe.
Few saw this coming, but some of us did. Four days before the election: Consider a Surprise M5S + NL Alliance.
The fun is just now starting.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
US is firmly in the sites of the EU.
They have conquered then use the euro to spread exports. Think on this – Germany gains exports on the back of a weak euro because or Greecem Spain, Italy etc that they dominate economically. Don’t you think German should recycle more of that profit BECAUSE they wouldn’t have it without the euro others weaken. They can’t lose. They have won Europe, now the world
An Anglo-Latino alliance?
What I mean is they control the purse strings and hence can dictate what the other nations do or else they’ll be cut off. Greece is the most obvious example, but the same thing more or less applies to all the indebted nations.
Greece has no real alternative since they can’t see to get their house in order. If they can balance their budget, they can tell the EU where to go, but if they remain dependent on EU cash infusions, they must do as the EU asks. The same will hold true in Italy.
That’s the problem with the EU in a nutshell. The mediterranean and eastern bloc countries can’t compete with the nordic countries and Germany on an even playing field. Germany has finally conquered europe. Not through military measures. This time they used economic measures.
Let us hope these Italians do not fold as quickly and as completely as the pathetic clowns in Greece’s Syriza who have opted on behalf of all of their country to live on their knees in the face of EU oppression.
The thing about the EU elite is they never go away. They stick lie sh!t to a blanket. Like a virus you can’t shrug off until it’s killed the patient.
Worth a read also: link to telegraph.co.uk
UK needs all the allies it can get as we have close to zero.
Let’s see if the Italians fold or not. Also push back against French plans.
Damn Right!
About time we got some fresh entertainment!