Frans Timmermans tried to destroy European agriculture, says Italian Agriculture Minister – POLITICO

“And maybe they come through my ports like they used to and maybe I can rebuild an economic force that I can’t build with the strength of my country alone,” he mused. “I don’t think Timmermans is crazy. I think he coldly calculated in the interest of the Netherlands and not in the interest of Europe.”

A spokesman for Timmermans, who stepped down last August to run in national elections, declined to comment on the Italian agriculture minister’s comments.

Lollobrigida doubled down on his claims in an interview with POLITICO.

“If we reduced domestic production, European food would be imported via Rotterdam,” he insisted, shaking his head while chewing Roman cheese. “This is what happened between the 1600s and 1750s in Europe, when the Netherlands became an empire with the East India Company.”

“Some things are not coincidences.”

This bizarre statement is just the latest from Lollobrigida, who was in Parma to open the CIBUS food fair, Italy’s largest agricultural fair. His keynote address covered the birth of Italian cuisine in the first millennium to the culinary devastation wrought by northern barbarians.

“We have absorbed Mediterranean cultures, we have absorbed Arab cultures… thanks to our explorers, we have had the opportunity to have in our Italy a little bit of everything that is created in the world,” he said. -he proclaimed, before asserting the inherent superiority of its national cuisine. .

“(We are) lucky to be born in Italy.”