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The Spanish socialists are open to the nomination of Raffaele Fitto as EU commissioner, in trade for the unblocking of that of the Spanish deputy prime minister Teresa Ribera, opposed by the People’s Party. Government sources reported this to the Spanish on-line newspaper elDiario.es. “The EU can not sink into instability with short-sighted cross-vetoes. To defend Europe, for accountability, a Commission that strikes ahead, which doesn’t rely on the maneuvers of Trump and the far proper, is crucial”, explain the sources.

“The decision to be made is not ‘whether Ribera or Fitto’ enters: the strategic decision is to reach a consensus that protects Europe in a particularly dangerous international scenario”, report Sanchez government sources cited by elDiario.es. “The relevant thing is what the EU does in the face of the new Trump administration which threatens EU products with tariffs, the trade war with China, which challenges the multilateral order and maintains an attitude of provocation towards the United Nations, with a Secretary of State for Energy who is openly a denialist and comes from the oil sector, and the resurgence of hostilities in Ukraine,” the sources add.