Deputy Premier, Foreign Minister, and
centre-right post Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI) leader Antonio
Tajani said ahead of the EU summit on top jobs and commission
posts Thursday and Friday that he was in favour of confirming
the existing European Parliament ruling majority coalition of
his European People's Party (EPP), the Socialists and Democrats
(S&D) and the Liberals, but without any opening to the Greens.
"Mine is a favourable inclination without any openness to the
Greens," said Tajani, who has been pressing for Premier Giorgia
Meloni's Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) to be allowed
into the majority.
The ECR is expected, however, to offer only external support for
the confirmed three-way alliance.
Tajani also said he was "very perplexed" that ex Portuguese
premier Antonio Costa, a Socialist, had reportedly been offered
a full five-year term as new president of the European Council,
instead of the term being split in two.
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