The European Parliament on Tuesday
postponed to "a date to be determined later" a vote on
confirming the appointment of Italy's Raffaele Fitto as one of
the new executive vice presidents of the European Commission,
with the cohesion brief.
The coordinators of the EP's Regional Affairs Committee opted
for a postponement to a "date to be determined" for the
evaluation of Fitto's Tuesday hearing, parliamentary sources
told ANSA.
Fitto, a heavyweight in Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing
Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and hitherto European Affairs,
South and Cohesion Minister in her government, told the
parliament earlier in the day that he would not represent the
FdI or Italy but the whole of Europe.
The FdI didn't vote in favour of Ursula von der Leyen's
confrmation as EC chief nor for the NextGeneration programme,
but Fitto said if the latter vote were repeated they would now
do so.
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