• Moscovici: "Mes is not a problem, rather a help for the banking system"
  • There is no agreement on the Mes. Gualtieri defends the reform: "Attacked by those who signed it"

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November 27, 2019Three meeting in the Chamber on the Mes, the European Stability Mechanism, after the opposition asked the president of the council Giuseppe Conte to report on the reform of the mechanism. Piero De Luca of the Democratic Party accused the League of having signed the agreement during the previous experience of government and was swept away by disputes. "Sold, sold" the cries from the benches of the opposition with the protests that come almost to the presidency. At this point President Fico suspended the session for 5 minutes.

Gualtieri: negotiated on the text is closed
The Mes was the subject of the hearing of the Minister of the Economy, Roberto Gualtieri, today in the Senate. "Is there a possibility that the negotiations on the Mes will reopen? In my opinion, no, my assessment is no: the text of the treaty is closed, there is work on external aspects but there is no negotiation on the text", he said Gualtieri. "I would be very cautious in arriving at the conclusion that on all the games that are on the table the fundamental question is to take 2/3 months more, to have a treaty that if it changes can also change for the worse. I have doubts that a resounding stop by the government to reopen the terms of a closed negotiation can be beneficial from the point of view of national interests, but the Parliament will sovereignly evaluate as always ".

"With Mes, safer citizens, we protect"
"It is better" that there is the Mes. "I think that Italian citizens would be less confident and less strong if we decided to leave the Mes". Thus the Economy Minister, Roberto Gualtieri, in a hearing before the EU Finance and Political Senate committees, stressing that it will not be ideal but it is better and not the other way around. "A bit like with the euro: am I satisfied with the governance of the euro? - asks Gualtieri - there is still a way to go, yes, but this does not mean that it would be better if we came out". That is why "when it comes to voting" in Parliament "I am quite confident". The Mes "protects us - Gualtieri insists again - because it protects the other countries avoiding failures of the countries in crisis, not us, because we will not need the Mes".

"Beware of the banking union, the real risk is there"
In Europe "there is an ongoing discussion that is extremely relevant and sensitive about the process of completing the banking union. I advise concentrating the debate there rather than on a false problem", such as that of the Mes reform, the minister said. Economy. "We are hoping for the introduction of a common deposit guarantee mechanism - he recalled - which we do not believe should be subjected to conditionality with respect to the change in the prudential treatment of government bonds held by banks and insurance companies. This yes, if introduced, could have effects. negative ", stresses the minister. Gualtieri refers to the German proposal to weight government bonds on country ratings. On completing the banking union, he concludes, "there is the government's commitment to negotiate the criteria and principles with a clear commitment to safeguarding the protection of national and European interest".

Melons: shame Gualtieri words
"We pointed out the shame of the words of Gualtieri on the Mes, given that they told us that it was all to be defined, but then we come to discover that not only the treaty was written but it cannot even be amended and engages Italy for 125 million of euros to substantially save the German banks. We asked that Conte come to report to see if he has signed with the blood of the Italians agreements that serve France and Germany ", says the president of Fratelli d'Italia, Giorgia Meloni, on the sidelines of the work of the House.