(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 27 - Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly
Schlein reiterated Thursday there could be no alliance in the EU
with Premier Giorgia Meloni's European Conservatives and
Reformists (ECR) group or Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini's
Identity and Democracy (ID) group, instead saying that the
alliance could be widened to include the Greens if needed.
The ruling majority of the centre-right European People's Party
(EPP) of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen ,
Schlein's Socialists and Democrats (S&D) of German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz, and the liberal Renew Europe of French President
Emmanuel Macron, is set to be confirmed at the EU summit in
Brussels Thursday and Friday.
Deputy Premier, Foreign Minister and centre-right post
Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI) leader Antonio Tajani, a member of
the EPP, has called for an enlargement of the alliance to
include the ECR and not the Greens.
Schlein said on the sidelines of the S&D pre-summit meeting: "No
to any kind of alliance with Giorgia Meloni's ECR or Le Pen and
Salvini's ID.
"For us that it not the path, you can't make alliances with
them.
"If you have to broaden the majority, for us it would be
important to broaden it with other democratic families like the
European Greens with whom there are many shared objectives like
the defence of the Green Deal" (ANSA).
No deal with ECR or ID, open to Greens says Schlein
Shares goals with Greens like defence of Green Deal says PD head