Is The EU A Failure?

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni slammed backdoor deals on EU top jobs and said it was “surreal” the opinions of European voters were not taken into account.

“There are those who argue that citizens are not wise enough to take certain decisions and that oligarchy is the only acceptable form of democracy, but I disagree,” Meloni said as she addressed the Italian parliament Wednesday morning.

She was speaking one day after six EU leaders from centrist parties announced that Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen, Portugal’s António Costa, and Estonia’s Kaja Kallas should get the most senior positions at the European Commission, European Council and foreign policy service, respectively.

The same names were floated ahead of June’s European election. Von der Leyen’s center-right European People’s Party came out as the big winner of that election, but the European Parliament also shifted more to the right, with Meloni’s European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group gaining seats.

Meloni wants that shift reflected in European decision-making. On Wednesday, she said the leaders of the EU seem tempted to “sweep the dust under the carpet” rather than recognize that many voters are dissatisfied with the EU.

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