Raffaele Fitto leaves EPP for ECR

Italian MEP Raffaele Fitto, a Forza Italia dissident, has joined the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament. “I am certain that he is the first and not the last of EPP deputies to join us over the coming months,” said Syed Kamall, president of the ECR group, announcing his new recruit on 19 May in Strasbourg. For Fitto, the seeds of divorce are of national origin: the former president of Puglia is seen in Italy as the…