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03 April 2020 "It is time to show more ambition, more unity and more courage. In the face of a storm like Covid-19 that affects everyone, a life preserver is not needed for Italy: a solid, European lifeboat is needed, that leads our united countries to shelter ". This was written by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in a letter on Repubblica in response to the letter from the President of the EU Commission, Ursula vonder Leyen, published yesterday in the same newspaper.

After the last European Council, "some anticipations of the technical works that I have been able to see do not seem at all up to the task that history has assigned us. We continue to insist on the use of tools such as the Mes which appear totally inadequate with respect to the aims to be pursued ", highlights Conte, who relaunches the proposal for a European Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, also necessary to" not miss the challenge of global competition ".

"This is a courageous and ambitious project that requires shared financial support and therefore needs innovative tools such as the European Recovery Bonds: European government bonds that are useful to finance the extraordinary efforts that Europe will have to put in place. field to rebuild its social and economic fabric ", explains Conte, reiterating that that the securities" are not intended to share the debt that each of our countries has inherited from the past, nor to ensure that the citizens of some countries have pay even one euro for the future debt of others ".

"It is a question, rather, of fully exploiting the true 'firepower' of the European family, of which we are all part, to create a great common and shared program of support and revitalization of our economy, and to ensure a future worthy of families, businesses, workers, and all our children, "notes the Prime Minister.

"We are called to make a qualitative leap that qualifies us as a 'union' from a political and social, even before an economic point of view", continues Conte, according to whom "solidarity must be the ink with which to write this page of history: the history of countries that are contracting debts to defend themselves from an evil they are not guilty of, in order to protect their communities, safeguarding the lives of their members, especially the most fragile, and while preserving their economic and social fabric ".