Greece, Spain, Poland show EU must change
Winds blow in different directions, but show EU needs reform
(ANSA) - Florence, May 25 - Premier Matteo Renzi said
Monday that last weekend's election outcomes in Spain and Poland and the
January victory of Premier Alexis Tsipras's anti-austerity Syriza party
in Greece show that the European Union must reform itself to survive.
"The wind from Greece, the wind from Spain, the wind from Poland, do not
blow in the same direction, they blow in the opposite direction," Renzi
told Tuscan TV channel Rtv38. "But all these winds say that Europe must
change. "I hope Italy will be able to powerfully take the voice of
change to Europe in the next few weeks and months," added the premier,
who has lobbied, with some success, for the EU to adopt greater
flexibility in the application of its budget rules. The anti-austerity
Podemos party made big gains in last weekend's local elections in Spain
and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski lost a presidential run-off to
conservative challenger Andrzej Duda.
"The electoral results in Spain and Poland are a nice big hammering for the defenders of a Europe of the banks and the slaves of Brussels," Northern League leader Matteo Salvini told his party's Radio Padania station.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA"The electoral results in Spain and Poland are a nice big hammering for the defenders of a Europe of the banks and the slaves of Brussels," Northern League leader Matteo Salvini told his party's Radio Padania station.