- With Italy’s snap elections set for Sunday (25 September), EURACTIV Italy looks into the programme of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italy.
- It also calls for a “Common Defence Army with the coordination of the European countries’ military forces and the establishment of a 100,000-man intervention corps,” surpassing the requirement of 60,000 forces laid out in the Helsinki 1999 decision that has never been implemented.
- In its programme, Forza Italia also proposes a so-called European Marshall Plan for Africa to significantly reduce immigration and increase military collaboration with the countries of North Africa and the Horn of Africa’, as well as a “European plan to help countries with ongoing conflicts and a high percentage of peoples living in absolute poverty”.
Forza Italia: a new Europe for politics, defence, real economy
