Jacques de Saint-Victor: "Italy is no longer conciliatory with the countries of the North which have left it alone in the face of the virus"

Law historian, university professor (Sorbonne Paris Nord and Sciences Po Paris), Jacques de Saint-Victor published Les Antipolitiques (Grasset, 2014). Last published work: Casa Bianca (Ecuador, 2019).

LE FIGARO.- Country bruised by the pandemic with more than 13,000 deaths, Italy feels abandoned by the European Union. How to explain such distrust?

Jacques DE SAINT-VICTOR.- It's not distrust, it's a reality: Italy seems abandoned by the European Union, at least by the countries of the North who decide to act as if nothing had happened was. This is the reason why she stopped playing the good little European pupil and decided to attack German and Dutch intransigence head on. On April 2, the President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, recalled, in an interview on German television and aimed directly at Merkel, that "we are writing a page of history and not a textbook on economics "

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