EU: tension in Senate over Ventotene manifesto

Milan, 20 March (LaPresse) – Tensions have also flared up in the Senate in the aftermath of the row in the Chamber of Deputies after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's words on the Ventotene manifesto. ‘What happened yesterday in the Chamber on the Ventotene Manifesto by the Prime Minister is serious for democracy, for Europe, and it must be spoken about in the Chamber,’ said Iv Senate group leader Raffaella Paita at the opening of the session. Shouts of protest rose from the majority benches. 'I believe that taking the words of people in confinement, of heroes, out of context is the most serious, shameful and inhuman thing we have seen in recent years, at a crucial time in the life of the country. It is something,' he added, ’that dishonours our country and does not do justice to the history of Europe, to the resistance, to anti-fascism. ‘The issue of Ventotene is the foundation of our country. If you do not recognise yourselves, it will mean that you do not recognise yourselves in the Italian Constitution. We ask to discuss it, because this is a central, fundamental fact. Fascism is a crime, you cannot prevent this from being discussed in our country,' said Avs Senator Tino Magni.