Brussels – Everything went as predicted on the eve of the election of the top positions of the committees and subcommittees at the EU Parliament, both in terms of the ambitions of the Italians and in terms of holding the cordon sanitaire against the far-right Patriots for Europe group (Europe of Sovereign Nations did not even try to enter the race for chairmanship and vice-chairmanship). The former mayor of Bari elected to the EU Parliament from the ranks of the Democratic Party, Antonio Decaro, is the new chairman of the committee Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI),…