European Parliament President
Antonio Tajani said Wednesday that Economic Affairs Commissioner
Pierre Moscovici was not speaking for Europe when he made
comments about Italy's March 4 elections on Tuesday.
"Moscovici is a French socialist commissioner, he does not
speak in the name of the European Union," Tajani, a member of
ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia party,
told Radio Anch'io.
Moscovici said Italy was among the risk factors for the EU
due to the uncertainty about the outcome of the March 4 general
election.
He also criticised the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement's
talk of breaking the EU's 3% deficit-to-GDP ratio limit and
blasted comments on the need to protect the "white race" by the
centre right's candidate to be Lombardy governor, Attilio
Fontana.
"It's true that there is concern about instability, but I
believe there will be a stable government," Tajani said.
"The Italians will go out to make this country count more".
As regards the deficit limit, Tajani said this was "not a
dogma of faith".
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