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    La Meloni vuole che l’Ue si sposti da Bruxelles a Roma

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    3. Own-Science7948 on

      Just imagine the housing prices in Rome if that happened.

    4. flobin on

      Represents its milennial identity, eh? Then finding housing for the EU should be impossible and we should put avocado toast on the flag.

    5. ballimi on

      Yeah good luck with that, they can’t even decide on 1 city for parliament

    6. DeanXeL on

      Isn’t Italy’s one of the most rapidly aging populations in Europe, because a lot of the young people are emigrating due to the country being so back-ass-wardly “oubollig”?

    7. add-4 on

      That’s exactly the kind of really important questions that Europe should be working on right now. That’s a great use of our money.

    9. ComfortableLost6722 on

      I don’t know about that. Italy is even more of a banana republic than Belgium.

    10. nevenoe on

      Sure, housing is very easy to come by in Rome, the transport system is highly efficient, there is plenty of space, and the arrival of 30.000 highly paid officials will not have any detrimental impact on the economy of the city.

      This being said, as a EU servant not working in Brussels, I would not mind going to Rome instead of Brussels when having to meet the HQ people.

    11. SmoetMoaJoengKietjes on

      Doesn’t matter where you move it, as long as there’s plenty of SAM sites surrounding it.

    12. Mister_K74 on

      A lot of urgent topics need to be dealt with in the EU ! Agreed, Rome was once a very important place in our recent history, but don’t stay in the past, it is the future of us all that counts. Now, get back to work ! Don’t spend another single Euro on such nonsense.

    13. ash_tar on

      Cute, Rome can apply for cultural capital and compete with Galway, Brno and Molenbeek.

    15. vita_lly-p on

      It is a video of 5 years ago. It should be said for intellectual fairness

    16. QuantumPlankAbbestia on

      Has anyone fact checked it? I googled Meloni, Rome, EU and this didn’t pop up, which I guess it would if it was recent.

      The closest thing I found was a title saying in June she recommended the European Parliament inspire themselves from the Italian Parliaments way of working.

    17. WhiteDogBE on

      Added as topic #999999 on the priority list.
      Hoping #1 is the defense budget right now…

    18. Positronitis on

      One of the reasons why Brussels was chosen that exactly it wasn’t one of the main historical cities. If Rome, why not Athens, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna or Paris?

    19. ThePaddyPower on

      Is she paying for the EU to move?

      The EU parliament can’t even decide what country to be in and Italy’s parliament can’t decide which city it wants to be in.

      There’s more a chance of Cork becoming the capital of the EU than an Italian city.

    20. gabbercharles on

      Hi, Roman here. This is utter nonsense.

      While the historical reasoning may be there (though a bit far fetched), there are reasons why Brussels has been picked, and they do (to some extent make sense).

      It’s got nothing to do with a city-by-city comparison since that would not make sense: Brussels is a <1m city while Rome (greater) is close to 3.7m. Both are disfunctional in their own weird ways.

      It’s rather that Brussels is a comfortable vanilla-flavoured no man’s land between European centres of power (Paris-Berlin and pre-Brexit London).

      Little-known fact: most EU institutions sit in leased buildings, and the 100-year term is coming to an end. Hence, the question of EU ‘capital’ may be opened once again. Does it matter? No, but such pointless discussions are an opportunity for making noise – seems like Giorgia is on point here.

      At present BXL is fine, since nobody (least of all Belgians – sorry proud Bruxellois*) wishes to be there. In fact, the biggest price of being a Eurocrat is that you have to live in BXL or Belgium, which is ironic.

    21. lolabugscouple on

      I come from Milan and I call this total fascist roman horseshit. The identity of the modern European union is not the one of an autocratic and violent empire, but the one of a multinational brotherhood between citizens of 29 states risen from the ashes of two bloody World Wars that ravaged the continent.

      Brussels has not been chosen because it is “easy to open offices” but because Belgium, with its multifaceted history and multicultural society is the melting pot of a united Europe. And also Belgium has been raped in both World Wars, so Brussels, in a way, is a political Jerusalem for the whole continent.

      On top of that, Rome is becoming a shame of a capital with all its malfunctioning and anti-social behaviors… In the end, I feel more of a foreigner in Rome than in Brussels.

    22. JustAnotherFreddy on

      Tbh, I need more convincing to go work in Brussels versus Rome.

    23. Fernand_de_Marcq on

      Can she take NATO as well to give us even more room back in the city?

    26. Mr_Mojo_Risin_43 on

      Slap a roof on the Colosseum and we’ve got ourselves a brand new EU Parliament!

    28. LyingTruth84 on

      This will almost definitely become one of Trump’s talking points, and will be used to antagonise EU Leaders and the EU Institutions.

    29. TK7000 on

      Honestly. They should have picked Strasbourg when they where picking a European capital.

      I get the political reason for choosing Bruxelles, but aesthetically its a dump compared to Strasbourg.

    30. Ezekiel-18 on

      Since the far-righter/neo-fascists like to claim we should inscribe the “Christian roots” of the EU in its official documents, why not propose Jerusalem while they are at it.

    31. BEFEMS on

      Good food, good weather, chaotic bureaucracy, tiny bit of corruption … what can go wrong ?

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