Italian Reaction To The Carolingian EU Project

Teoman Tulun ()

No 2vkz5, OSF Preprints from Center for Open Science

Abstract: Italy has joined China's global project of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly known as the New Silk Road. BRI "involves a wave of Chinese funding for major infrastructure projects around the world, in a bid to speed Chinese goods to markets further afield". French President Emmanuel Macron and German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel signed in January 2019 a new "Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation and Integration" in Aachen. In February, France recalled its ambassador in Rome "after what Paris described as 'repeated, baseless attacks' from the ruling Italian parties". Italy's participation in China's BRI has been generally evaluated in terms of its economic implications. However, the political aspect and especially Italy's general attitude pertaining to EU is as important as the economic aspect. The discontent of Italian politicians with the Franco-German axis is not limited only with the far-right or "populist" called politicians. Italy has entered into a comprehensive cooperation with China without waiting for the possible EU joint action on the issue. We see that Italy is not content with the kind of "hegemonic axis" emerging in the EU. The Franco-German axis brings more division than unison to the EU and Europe.

Date: 2019-04-10
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