Russia, today the Democratic Party criticizes Salvini and Berlusconi for their closeness in the past with President Vladimir Putin and his party, United Russia
The Democratic Party is at the forefront in calling for scorched earth around the Kremlin, providing Italian military aid to the Ukrainian government and driving Russia out of the international system Swift. And the Democratic Party continues to criticize Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi for their closeness in the past with the president Vladimir Putin and his party, United Russia.
Perhaps few remember that on November 26, 2013 Enrico Letta, then Prime Minister, met Putin in Trieste for the Italy-Russia summit. “We have a dramatic need to grow, to create jobs. There is a recovery to be engaged and in this sense the relationship with Russia can give us jobs in sectors that are strategic for us“, Letta said at the time at the end of the face-to-face with the Russian president ..” For this I must concentrate so that the results achieved here in Trieste can materialize. And for them to materialize in Italy there must not be a chaotic situation, I have been working on this incessantly for seven months and continue to work today“.
The secretary of the Democratic Party called the day one of the “more intense and productive“for the government, with the signing of 28 trade agreements and seven intergovernmental agreements between the two countries.”We have many commitments to implement, agreements must become concrete facts“. Among the agreements there should also have been the creation of a one billion euro fund between the Italian Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and the Russian Investment Fund which will invest in the two countries.
Russia, left embarrassment for ‘comrade’ Schröder
Great embarrassment on the European left, and also in the Democratic Party, for the role of the former German Chancellor in Russia Gerhard Schröder (Spd), who led Germany from 1998 to 2005 becoming a kind of icon for social democracy and reformists from all over the Old Continent. In over sixteen years, Schröder has become one of the highest paid lobbyists in the world. With the not inconsiderable detail that the former Chancellor has only one customer: the Russian energy industry which, like everything in the Federation, is headed by Putin.
Schröder is on the boards of directors of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, of the oil giant Rosneft and from June will make the big leap in that of Gazpromgas monopolist, pillar of the economy and central instrument of power of the Kremlin. Moreover, the former German Chancellor boasts a strong friendship with Vladimir Vladimirovic, totally reciprocated. Regularly and unfailingly ready to defend the reasons for fly since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Schröder at 77 still has a big influence on the SPD, which in him has always celebrated the winner of Helmut Kohl, the hero of the two electoral victories in 1998 and 2002, the Chancellor which kept Germany out of the Iraq war. In the years of his not always clear deals with Russia and his embarrassing defenses of office of Putin, whom he once called a “flawless democratic“, however, they ended up making it a factor of serious disturbance for social democracy and for the entire European reformist left.
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