Former European Commission President
and ex-premier Romano Prodi and former European commissioner and
ex-premier Mario Monti on Tuesday made a joint appeal for vetoes
over the appointments of Italy's Raffaele Fitto and Spain's
Teresa Ribera to EC President Ursula von der Leyen's new EU
executive to be dropped.
"With the enormous challenges that the European Union has to
face in the East and in the West at this moment in time, we
trust that, when faced with qualified candidates such as Teresa
Ribera or Raffaele Fitto, internal tensions will not prevail, in
particular among the groups considered to be the most
pro-European, such as the People's Party and the Socialists,"
Prodi and Monti said.
The Socialists and Democrats (S&D), a cornerstone of von der
Leyen's renewed three-way alliance, has voiced concern over the
appointment of Fitto, a member of Premier Giorgia Meloni's
European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) caucus because the
ECR did not vote for the NextGenEU project or for von der Leyen
to get a second term.
Von der Leyen's European People's Party (EPP) is unhappy about
the involvement of Spanish Premier Pedro Sanchez's deputy
premier and ecological transition minister Ribera.
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