Tremonti: Draghi and Merkel not politically legitimate negotiators for Ukraine

"In my view others don’t like them, so they won’t be chosen." This is what Giulio Tremonti, president of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said as a guest on ‘Point Break’ with Monica Giandotti and Daniele Ruvinetti, referring to the idea of Mario Draghi or Angela Merkel acting as EU negotiators for the war between Russia and Ukraine.

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"I believe it must be a European institution: it can be the Commission, it can be the Parliament, but you can’t imagine that problems like these are solved in an anthropomorphic way. You need political legitimacy; it seems to me that both are somewhat lacking in that regard at the moment."