{"id":334776,"date":"2024-02-09T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/02\/09\/fabio-massimo-castaldo-renew-elezioni-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T15:34:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T14:34:13","slug":"after-joining-azione-fabio-massimo-castaldo-joins-the-liberals-of-renew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/02\/09\/after-joining-azione-fabio-massimo-castaldo-joins-the-liberals-of-renew\/","title":{"rendered":"After joining Azione, Fabio Massimo Castaldo joins the liberals of Renew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Fabio Massimo Castaldo, <\/strong>formerly of the 5 Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle),<\/strong> changes sides in Italy and Europe. A week after joining the Action party (Azione), the announcement: after a term in the European Parliament among the benches of the non-attached in the ranks of the 5 Star Movement, he is joining the liberal group of Renew Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Welcome to the most pro-European family in Parliament. Welcome home,” the group’s new chairwoman, Val\u00e9rie Hayer<\/strong>, welcomed him in\u00a0a post<\/a> on X. In the third group in the European Parliament\u00a0after the Populars and the Social Democrats – the three-way alliance on which the so-called “Ursula majority” was based – Castaldo joins his newly appointed party-mate Giuseppe Ferrandino, Nicola Danti, in Matteo Renzi’s party, and another former 5-Star representative, Marco Zullo.<\/p>\n

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Renew Europe President Val\u00e9rie Hayer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 38-year-old Roman –\u00a0vice president of the European Parliament from 2017 to 2022 –\u00a0divorced from the 5-Star Movement over disagreements with Giuseppe Conte’s faction on sending arms to support Ukraine’s resistance<\/strong>. On Feb. 1, during a press conference at the Chamber of Deputies to announce the newly acquired member of Azione, Carlo Calenda<\/strong> said Castaldo joined the party “on a decisive point for us, which is the holding of an axis of support for Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

A natural port in Europe after joining Calenda, Castaldo thanked Renew for the “very warm welcome”\u00a0and said he was honored to “be able to relaunch the path of European integration together.” His former party members wished him good luck with a jab: by joining Azione, Castaldo “will thus find candidacy and\u00a0third and fourth terms.”<\/strong> Because in the Movement, there is a rule of the double term limit. And Castaldo aims to stay in Brussels even after the June 6-9, 2024 elections.<\/p>\n

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Tr\u00e8s ch\u00e8re @ValerieHayer<\/a>, je suis enfin chez moi ! Je vous remercie de tout c\u0153ur pour l\u2019accueil tr\u00e8s chaleureux que toute la famille de @RenewEurope<\/a> m\u2019a r\u00e9serv\u00e9 hier. Honor\u00e9 de vous avoir comme Pr\u00e9sidente, ainsi que de pouvoir relancer ensemble le chemin de l\u2019int\u00e9gration\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/P1cXI04yf1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Fabio Massimo Castaldo (@FMCastaldo) February 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n