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The EPP condemned the Russian invasion from day one. Unequivocally.
It supported and led the sanctions against Russia. Unwaveringly. It supported the sending of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Firmly. Attempts to break through." to suggest otherwise are absurd. Period ".
The secretary general of the European People's Party, Thanasis Bakolas, wrote in a tweet.
In a previous tweet, after the controversy over Berlusconi's words, the EPP underlined how "Forza Italia's position is crystal clear: it supports Ukraine in the fight against Russia's illegal war".
"I think it is absolutely clear that President von der Leyen did not intervene in the Italian elections when she spoke of instruments and referred to procedures underway in other countries".
This was stated by the spokesman of the EU Commission,
Eric Mamer,
responding to a question about the words of von der Leyen at Princeton University.
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In her response, President Ursula von der Leyen "explicitly said that the Commission will work with all governments that come out of the elections and want to work with the European Commission," added Mamer.
The president "tried to explain the role of guardian of the treaties of the Commission and in particular in the field of the rule of law", added Mamer.
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Berlusconi's words in Porta a Porta, according to which Putin "wanted to replace Zelensky with a government of decent people"
become a coincidence .
"Putin - he said - has fallen into a difficult and dramatic situation - said the leader of Fi -. I say that he fell because it was a mission of the two pro-Russian republics of Donbass that went to Moscow and spoke to everyone. with newspapers, TV and party ministers, they went to him in a delegation saying Zelensky has increased the attacks of his forces against us and our borders, we have reached 16 thousand dead, defend us because if you don't do it we don't know where we can get and Putin was pushed by the Russian population, his party and his ministers to invent this special operation ".
Attacks the Dem secretary,
Enrico Letta
.
Those of Berlusconi on Putin "are scandalous and very serious words. I wonder and I ask Meloni if he shares them and if the Italians can share them. Moreover, they are rambling words; Berlusconi himself voted for aid with Fi supporting Draghi. We are beyond imaginable , are words that please Putin. If on Sunday evening if the right wins, the first happy would be Putin. We are always against the aggressor who, as Berlusconi himself says, 'uses troops to make good people' ".
Hard also
Carlo Calenda,
leader of the third pole, at 24 Mattino on Radio 24. "Yesterday Berlusconi took us out of any kind of European and Euro-Atlantic alliance. Yesterday Berlusconi spoke like a general of Putin. But a coalition that quarrels on everything it means Italy in default. Other solutions mean Italy in disaster. Here either we get it into our head that we are in a very agitated sea, or we will break our heads. if we vote right, it is a disaster announced. We can only choose the third pole to keep the country safe ".