After American billionaire Elon Musk’s repeated criticism of Italy’s migration policy, the EU head of state has had enough. Sergio Mattarella reprimanded Tesla’s founder and forbade interference in Italian affairs.
“Italy is a great, democratic country and can take care of itself,” Mattarella wrote on Wednesday. Anyone – like Musk – who should fulfill an “important government function” in a friendly and allied state “must respect its sovereignty and cannot make it their job to give these instructions,” it said in a diplomatically worded rebuke addressed to Musk will be responsible for efficient governance under the future US administration under President Donald Trump.
Musk became involved in a dispute on Tuesday between the Italian judiciary and the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Meloni is good friends with the richest man in the world. “These judges have to go,” Musk wrote on his short-messaging platform
Musk gives in, but continues to hold on to ‘own opinion’
After the Italian leader’s reprimand, Meloni called Musk on the phone. According to the daily newspaper ‘La Stampa’, the head of government called on the entrepreneur not to get her cabinet into trouble. A little later, the entrepreneur relented and announced through his representative in Italy, Andrea Stroppa, that he respected Mattarella and the Italian Constitution. However, Musk will “continue to openly express his own opinions,” the statement said.
Source: Krone
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