France convened the Italian ambassador to Paris, Emanuela D’Alessandro, “following the unacceptable comments” by Matteo Salvini against Emmanuel Macron for his support for sending troops to Ukraine
Reported by the AFP, the call to Quai d’Orsay, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, took place a few hours after the League leader, last Thursday, had invited the French president – in the Milanese dialect – to “Taches al tram”, to attack, that is, to the tram by exhorting him polemically to go to Ukraine: “You put the helmet, the rifle, the rifle and go in Ukraine, “Salvini said on the sidelines of an inspection in via Bolla in Milan commenting on the hypothesis of France to send troops to the ground.
Salvini had also enhanced the policy of Donald Trump – “with his ways that can sometimes seem abrupt or irritated, he is managing where they have failed everyone” – criticizing instead the “macronate” they foresee, is the accusation, “European armies, European laughs, European common debts to buy missiles”. Hence the diplomatic incident that forced Paris – as reported by a source of France Press – to remember “that these comments are contrary to the climate of trust and historical relations between the two countries, as well as to recent bilateral developments that have highlighted strong convergences, in particular as regards their unshakable support for Ukraine”.
To weigh on the decision and the urgency of the convening of the ambassador, most likely, the custom of the attacks of the League vice -premier towards Macron, often publicly apostropped as a “warflower” and “bombarolo”. Terms reused also last Thursday when, however, that phrase on the net to Italian troops in Ukraine, was said to specify it was his position “as vice -president of the Council, as minister, as a secretary of the League”. The chronicles then report at the beginning of last March, to record another attack by Salvini against the Elysée of the Elysée and, always, to contest the idea of a European army: there will never be, then said the League leader, “a European army commanded by that madman of Macron who speaks of nuclear war”.
He, Macron, “has a desperate need to make sense of his even short stay at the helm of France. But he does not do it at our expense,” he said to contest the offer of the nuclear umbrella in Kiev but the ‘chronology’ does not stop there. And on other occasions there have been many ways with which Salvini turned to the French president: “hypocritical”, “chattering”, “polite Signorino who exceeds in champagne”, “criminal”. In an escalation that started last June when the invitation was: “Put the helmet, go to fight and not break the balls”.