Salvini describes EU job sharing as a “coup” and calls for “a large alternative group”

June 28 () –

The leader of Italy’s League, Matteo Salvini, described the distribution of top EU posts as “a European coup” and called for a new alliance, “a large alternative group” on the right.

“Democracy requires us to react with all possible means”, in search of the “change desired” by “millions” of people, Salvini declared in a video broadcast on social networks, hours after the so-called ‘top jobs’ were confirmed. of the EU.

For Salvini, minister of Giorgia Meloni’s government, this distribution is “one more gesture of arrogance and lack of respect” in the face of those who have asked for “change.” In this sense, he has criticized that the “bureaucrats” have endorsed that the German Ursula Von der Leyen continues to head the European Commission, thanks to the alliance “that has done so much damage in these five years.”

Along with Von der Leyen, the appointment of the socialist António Costa as head of the European Council was also confirmed, while the Estonian Prime Minister, the liberal Kaja Kallas, will take over EU diplomacy.