European Economic Affairs
Commissioner Pierre Moscovici should not "dare" to call Italy's
governing parties "little Mussolinis", Deputy Premier Luigi Di
Maio said Thursday.
Moscovici had said earlier that the rise of European
populists showed that "today there is a climate that very much
resembles the 1930s. Certainly, we must not exaggerate, clearly
there isn't Hitler, perhaps little Mussolinis".
Di Maio, leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S), said "the attitude from some European commissioners is
unacceptable, really intolerable.
"They dare to say that in Italy there are many little
Mussolinis, they should not dare!".
The M5S is allied in government with the anti-migrant
Euroskeptic League party of Interior Minister and Deputy Premier
Matteo salvini.
Both parties have been dubbed populist, a label they do not
disdain.
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