Milan, Sept. 8 (LaPresse) – “You cannot chase extremism, there is room for an alternative political proposal. But first, it is necessary to understand the mistakes of the last thirty years.” Giulio Tremonti, an FdI lawmaker and chairman of the Chamber of Deputies’ Foreign Affairs Committee, said this in an interview with Repubblica. “In July 1989, I wrote that globalization would empty parliaments,” explaining that “as a result, a series of economic and geographical phenomena reduced the role of states. Brussels took refuge in a greenhouse of rules: meanwhile, from outside, the panes of the greenhouse were broken by countries that did not have our constraints. The most evident effect in Germany was seen with the suicide of the auto sector.” “The AfD is an extremist party, but it does not have an extremist electorate. Some dynamics remind me of the Weimar Republic, which, after all, is just two hours from Magdeburg: a traumatized, alienated, stressed society turns to the strangest figures in protest,” he says, stressing that “the cordon sanitaire was born in another era, but it is still the only possible option,” although, from his point of view, “the priority is something else: understanding the origin of the problems and formulating competing proposals.” Regarding the AfD’s positions on leaving the euro and moving closer to Russia, the former minister in the Berlusconi government says: “They are hypotheses outside history. The single currency protects us from the financial crisis that is coming. And then, the AfD has not understood that Russia’s destiny is nothing other than becoming China’s Belarus: the satellite of another power.”
Germany, Tremonti: “It reminds me of Weimar, the right must not follow extremism”
Milan, Sept. 8 (LaPresse) – “You cannot chase extremism, there is room for an alternative political proposal. But first, it is necessary to understand the mistakes of the last thirty years.” Giulio Tremonti, an FdI lawmaker and chairman of the Chamber of Deputies’ Foreign Affairs Committee, said this in an interview with Repubblica. “In July 1989, I wrote that globalization would empty parliaments,” explaining that “as a result, a series of economic and geographical phenomena reduced the role of states. Brussels took refuge in a greenhouse of rules: meanwhile, from outside, the panes of the greenhouse were broken by countries that did not have our constraints. The most evident effect in Germany was seen with the suicide of the auto sector.” “The AfD is an extremist party, but it does not have an extremist electorate. Some dynamics remind me of the Weimar Republic, which, after all, is just two hours from Magdeburg: a traumatized, alienated, stressed society turns to the strangest figures in protest,” he says, stressing that “the cordon sanitaire was born in another era, but it is still the only possible option,” although, from his point of view, “the priority is something else: understanding the origin of the problems and formulating competing proposals.” Regarding the AfD’s positions on leaving the euro and moving closer to Russia, the former minister in the Berlusconi government says: “They are hypotheses outside history. The single currency protects us from the financial crisis that is coming. And then, the AfD has not understood that Russia’s destiny is nothing other than becoming China’s Belarus: the satellite of another power.”