Nicole Gnesotto said:
“The EU’s lack of preparations, its powerlessness, its timidity are staggering.
Of course, health is not part of its competency, but it is not without means or responsibility.”
As a pro-EU organisation they are unhappy that the EU did not take unified action and instead saw the re-assertion of individual states taking what measures they thought necessary. With such a disunited Union the enxt logical steps would be for other nation states to follow the lead of the UK and exit the bloc.
Former europhile Italian prime minister Enrico Letta has been particularly scathing about Dutch resistance to helping Italy.
He told the Dutch press that the Italian view of the Netherlands has been seriously damaged.
He said: “It did not help that a day after German customs officials stopped a huge amount of masks at the border, Russian trucks carrying relief supplies drove through the streets of Rome and millions of masks were sent from China. Matteo Salvini is waiting for this type of action from the Netherlands and Germany so that he can say: you see, we have no use for the European Union.”
One anonymous Diplomat said that the crisis had not been Europe’s “finest hour” and had laid bare the divisions and cracks within the bloc: “This has not been our finest moment. Our response has come too late and has been marred by nationalism. Solidarity went out of the window with the first coronavirus victim.”
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