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EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici on Friday called the Italian MEP a "fascist" who trampled his notes with his shoe, promising to fight "those people" until his "last breath".
"He's a moron, a provocateur, a fascist, his gesture is grotesque," Moscovici told CNews. He was questioned about the provocation of Angelo Ciocca, the MEP (far right) on Tuesday after the press conference where the Commissioner announced the rejection of the Italian budget.
"When we begin to handle violence against institutions, when we start trampling the rules, including with shoes, we have a kind of slow drift to what we call illiberal democracy, it's to say the non respect of the freedom of the press, the freedom of the justice and the political institutions ", he affirmed.
"It's really politics that I hate and it's people I will fight until my last breath," promised Mr. Moscovici, recalling that Matteo Salvini, the boss of the Lega, had stood out from the crowd. provocation of the MEP.
"We do not change Europe with provocations," Salvini said of Ciocca's gesture.
The European Commissioner on Tuesday rejected the Italian budget, largely outside the European nails, an unprecedented decision, and asked the government of the populist coalition to submit a revised budget in three weeks.
Mr Ciocca joined the press gallery after the presentation by Mr Moscovici and took the notes of the latter on the table. He then removed a shoe, which he applied to the stolen leaves, under the incredulous eye of the French commissioner.
After talking about a "lack of respect", the Commissioner had already described Wednesday the gesture of "grotesque" on Twitter.
"At first we smile and trivialize because it's ridiculous, then we get used to a dull symbolic violence, and one day we wake up with fascism, let's be vigilant, democracy is a fragile treasure," he said. -he writes.
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