I put Romania to the corner, but apply Simion Policy in their countries
The printed edition of this week of publication political From Brussels he has George Simion on the first page. « The unpredictable element George Simion tests the nerves of Brussels », the cover is called, which also includes fragments from an interview with the candidate who has « considerable chance of winning the Presidency of Romania ». The article revolves around a few topics: the consequences of a victory of Simion over Romania’s position on the war in Ukraine, the chances of George Simion will follow a policy such as Giorgia Meloni in Italy and the possible relationship with Hungary of Viktor Orban.
Oana Lungescu, a former NATO spokesman, says that George Simion will bring discord to the European Council and, potentially, in NATO. « His position is very clear about Russia’s aggression war, it proposes Romania’s neutrality – which is incompatible with the position of Romania as a member of the EU and NATO. » The leader of the PPE, Manfred Weber, shares the same opinion and says that Simion is « a risk for everything I support. »
Simion claims that it is a meloni from Romania, but in Brussels he is not perceived, writes politico. « The hostile relationship with Ukraine is a major problem and has prevented gold accession to the EU reformists and conservatives. Since then, Simion claimed that it is a Kremlin critic and said Putin should be arrested for war crimes. But he did not want to support military aid for Ukraine and promised to oppose such a European Council. »
As for the relationship with Viktor Orban, Politico shows that this would be difficult, because there will be two nationalist leaders who will deepen the frictions related to Transylvania and the Hungarian community there. Politico reminds of the incidents from the 2019 Valley of Uzului. And he ends with a USR message from Claudiu Năsui: « The best scenario is a President in Meloni or Pis in Poland. But I think it will be worse than Viktor Orban. »
Although drawn less abruptly, the conclusion of the Cover in Politico is similar to that of Vladimir Tismăneanu: Analogy Romania-Italia does not resist. Tismaneanu’s arguments: Romania is not Italy in terms of democratic tradition, rule of law, etc.
Who disrupts the EU plans?
Leaving aside all the rhetoric of Giorgiei Meloni about Russia, the facts in Italy look something different. On May 15, Eurointelligence He wrote about the case of a small Italian company bought by Renk, a German manufacturer of gearboxes. The Franco-German giant Kdns (manufacturer of Leclerc and Leopard 2) wants to buy the company RENK, as part of the European Axing Strategy. Only in Italy, the so-called « golden rule » works, which gives the government the last word regarding the merger and purchases of companies from areas of strategic interest (finance, energy, defense). The Meloni government pulls time, and for the small Italian company this purchase would not be profitable at this time. At the stamp he writes that the problem of the tank builder will be on the agenda of the first visit of the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to Rome.
Prime Minister Meloni will have the opportunity to use the above acquisition as a exchange currency for a more important business – the UniCredit merger from Italy with Commerzbank in Germany. For a year, UniCredit has been aiming to become the largest shareholder of Commerzbank, the second largest bank in Germany. Berlin does not want one of the great German banks to enter the Italians, all the analysts say. Thus, it seems to be chosen the dust from the UniCredit plan to take over Commerzbank and then make a merger with Hypovereinsbank (already UniCredit Branch) to create the largest bank in Germany. I am not wrong if we extend the vision of the Berlin government in the banking and on the automotive industry and other fanion economic branches in the country.
The situation is similar to the one that prevented the appearance of a « Airbus Naval », the first purchase by the company from Italy of the Naval Siters from Saint Nazaire, from France. President Macron did not want to sell a fanion company of France some Italians and nationalized the sites in 2017. The shipyard had been owned by a South Korean company that went bankrupt. The Macron regime did not want to leave it in the Italians. The state remains a shareholder in Saint Nazare, and Europe does not have an « Airbus of the Seas ».
The above situations led to the blocking of the steps to a unique financial market in the EU (a priority at least at the rhetorical level in Brussels), to block a common European military project and a common naval project, to block the creation of « European champions » in the field, with the chance of keeping the American and Chinese competition, also a priority in Brussels. The above situations present us not a « George Simion » disruptive of EU plans, but four. This is Emmanuel Macron, former Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Giorgia Meloni, as well as Mario Monti (former European Commissioner, former banker Goldman Sachs and an Italy prime minister, in which the « golden rules » began, reinforced in 2023 meloni).
You must not be neither gold or Simion, nor « the most right-wing Italian government in Mussolini », with fascist tendencies (as the whole mainstream press wrote after Meloni’s victory, in the autumn of 2022) to break EU plans by affirming your economic patriotism. The Eurofilies from Germany and France, who give the Romanians about how to vote, even support (like former commissioner Thierry Breton) are doing.
Spaghetti Western with meloni, Simion, Trump
The claim that Romania is not Italy remains valid. But it is not here about the standard of living, nor the cleanliness on the streets, corruption, « vibrant » NGOs and a rule of law. It’s about UniCredit, Fincantieri, Fiat, etc. Prime Minister Meloni has what he defended and has enough sticks to put in the EU wheels. On the other hand, the financial sector in Romania is not Romanian, and Romania produces neither tanks nor ships, but at most wiring cars.
The positions of Meloni and Simion meet the most about the relationship with the United States, but not necessarily in a way that resonates with the electorate of the brother D’Italy and Gold. At the economic level, Meloni has totally opened Italy in front of the big American corporations. The government has adopted a law that offers foreign space companies permission to operate in Italy. Spacelink’s company, by Elon Musk, will be able to win the monopoly in the areas of Italy who do not yet have data trafficking and eliminate the competition of native OPTIC Fiber and Telecom Italy (TIM) companies, but also control military communications in Italy. In November 2024, in the US, Meloni met with Lary Fink, CEO Blackrock. The Meloni government approved, with the « Golden Rule », the taking over of the fixed telephony division of the aforementioned company by one of the big partners of Blackrock. This is KKR, an American investment fund on the payment states of which, for more than a decade, General David Petraeus, former head of Centcom and the CIA.
At the social level, the Meloni government is as liberal as possible, at times neoliberal. In June, there will be several referendums that will be aimed in particular to the reform of labor law. Although the brother of Italy loses land in the poor south of Italy before the local elections, in the campaign for referendum the Prime Minister Meloni and his party are rather against strengthening the protection of the employees. As well as Binda and Forza Italy, the government partners.
On May 14, in an interview for a close publication- The American Conservative – George Siomion said: « Our goal is to achieve energy independence and protect our food, water and natural resources. » But how? « Romania is rich in copper, gold salt-almost any element of the periodic system. My platform is pro-business. I liked an expression of President Trump in the inaugural discourse: » Drill, Baby, Drill « . It is exactly our approach: we must create the conditions for bilateral business opportunities. »
If he wins the elections, George Simion can contradict everyone who does not see him like a melon of Romania. Meloni has succeeded in maintaining populism in power, and this in a country known for government instability. However, everything has a price, and it affects precisely its own « sovereignist » electorate.
