The EU’s funniest man
“Satan has many faces. If you dance with him, he never changes; only you do. Those are biblical truths.”
Yes, that’s still him talking about debt.
Meloni is “one of the top dogs.”
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s statements carry weight around the European Council table, according to De Wever, who said she’s a “very pleasant woman” with “very good” political positioning. “If you look at the room and see whose words carry weight, then Meloni is obviously one of the top dogs in Europe right now.” Meloni’s Brothers of Italy and De Wever’s N-VA party are both in the European Conservatives and Reformists group (ECR).
David Cameron and Boris Johnson tried their hand at “advanced political mathematics” in the Brexit referendum.
De Wever’s New Flemish Alliance joined the European Parliament’s right-wing ECR group at the insistence of then-U.K. Conservative leader David Cameron, who he said offered him an alliance “for eternity” — before Brexit removed his party and country from the EU. Cameron was sure he’d win the referendum, and Brexit figurehead Boris Johnson assured De Wever that he’d lose anyway — but get personal credit for winning Brexiteer votes. De Wever said he’d wondered: “The man who doesn’t have a plan for losing could lose anyway, and the man who has no plan for a victory might actually end up the winner.”
“I’m a Belgian politician: I can tell the difference between talking and negotiating very well.”
Negotiations require mediation and a clear target. U.S. President Donald Trump’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with Russian demands that would amount to a “true capitulation by Ukraine,” don’t appear to go beyond simply talking, De Wever argued. Trust the Belgian to tell the difference.
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