Military expenses, the words of the former premier Conte are discussed
The stance of a former prime minister on the no to increase in military spending is making noise. Because when he was at Palazzo Chigi Giuseppe Conte (“Giuseppi” for a friend who was in the White House) he would never have dreamed of taking such a path. Today he does it, a bit to annoy Mario Draghi, whom he continues to consider as a usurper; and a little to pave the way for Alessandro Di Battista and his followers, to favor a return to the Five stars. This is what Francesco Storace writes on https://corrieredellumbria.corr.it.
The Russian-Ukrainian war thus becomes a pretext to mark a “revolutionary” political path. A “no” that serves as “enlistment“Of forces that have moved away from M5s over time. And it doesn’t matter if this can make Enrico Letta angry. The reasoning is: where do they go without us? So let’s do as we please. The surge in military spending to 2 percent of GDP is being urged by NATO, of which Italy is a part and certainly does not intend to leave it. Starting to raise his voice is used by Giuseppe Conte to mark an identity and fill a pacifist space that cannot be left alone to the ultra-left. In the parliamentary debate the modality of expression of the refusal of weapons, even if it will not be easy to reconcile it with Mario Draghi’s position of support for the government.
Ukraine: Conte words worry Pd, it is time for unity – The discontent among the parliamentarians of the Democratic Party is growing for what is happening within the Five Stars: the interview in which Giuseppe Conte questions the vote for the increase in military spending in Italy was welcomed among the dem ranks with a mixture of disappointment and disappointment. It was hoped that, after the five-star leader distanced himself from the positions of the president of the foreign commission, that atmosphere of unity could be resumed more than once also hoped for by the secretary Enrico Letta. So it wasn’t. “We could not support a vote that identified as a priority the increase in military spending on our national budget. In this case the Movement could do nothing but vote against“, says Conte in an interview with Repubblica. And if this meant bringing down the government?” Everyone will make his own choices “, replies Conte. In this morning’s councils of deputies and senators everything is a” fall of arms “. Because, and ‘the reasoning, in a moment that requires great national unity, the distinctions are hard to understand. “We have seen so many in the last few days”, it is emphasized again. ‘we vote no to increased spending’, not even excluding the possibility of embarrassing the government, “it’s something that makes your arms fall, even before generating disappointment”.
The hope remains that it is “only a way to keep the Movement together which, from Petrocelli downwards, has shown to be traversed by very different sensitivities regarding the Ukrainian affair:” Conte tries to keep his leadership team together and take back an identity flag. Then, we are confident that at the formal steps things will change “. An even more incomprehensible position since during the Conte government military spending was above the European average: according to the SIPRI observatory, expenditure related to the military sector in 2019 amounted to around 27.8 billion dollars., equal to 1.3% of the national GDP. A figure that places Italy in eleventh place among the countries with the highest military spending in the world and fifth among NATO countries (behind only the USA, France, United Kingdom and Germany. In 2020, moreover, Italy spent 1.4% of GDP on defense, a figure higher than both the European Union average (1.3%) and the euro area average (1.3%). Despite everything, it filters from the Nazarene ” confidence in the fact that, in this moment of great complexity, a sense of responsibility will prevail. We are in a period passage like never before and it is important and important to keep Italy’s position firmly within the European perimeter and within that of NATO “. This is not a casual reference, given that the No to the increase in military spending “would risk dragging Italy out of NATO”, as one deputy feared. In fact, NATO has indicated 2% of GDP as the minimum expenditure for the countries that join the Alliance. A request renewed and also signed by Italy during the Cardiff summit, in Wales, in 2014.
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