After the criticism of the Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini at the French President Emmanuel Macron Paris signaled in clear words annoyance. „My answer is that it is not our intention to compete, who is the dumbest,“ Europe Minister Nathalie Loiseau said today in Paris after a cabinet meeting. The Lega politician accused Macron of talking and not achieving much.
In a livestream on Facebook, Salvini said, „He (Macron) gives lessons in generosity, but then rejects thousands of migrants on the Italian border.“ He therefore hopes that the French will give their „terrible president“ a vote in the European elections in May Missing pamphlets, Italy’s right-wing deputy prime minister recently said.
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Loiseau spoke of utterances that were useless and unfriendly. „We have a term in France that says that coated is insignificant. When utterances are simultaneously overdone because of their tone and number, they become insignificant. “
The head of the department said that France wanted to continue working with her neighbor Italy, but restricted herself: „Does the atmosphere nevertheless allow all ministerial visits as if nothing is happening?“ She would travel to Italy when the climate calmed down.
European supporters Macron, for its part, had struck a hard tone towards „nationalists“ in Europe months ago, focusing primarily on the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Salvini.
