• Di Maio: "Not only Mes, ok, it's packaged. M5S will decide how and if it passes"
  • Salvini: "On the Mes someone has lied, it must be reviewed. Indeed it is to be blocked"
  • Mes, Conte: "All the ministers knew, the government did not sign the Common Treaty Diffuse false news"
  • The statement of Conte sul Mes, the reactions of the oppositions
  • Mes, high tension in the government. Count reports to the Chambers
  • Mes: Gentiloni, no risk for Italy

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December 04, 2019The Mes, the state-saving fund, agitates the political waters. With the opposition - which continues to reiterate that "the savings of Italians will be taken away to restructure the debt of German banks" - and the majority that still cannot find a definitive agreement, so much so that the end of this executive. But the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, as well as political leader of the 5Stelle, this morning from the microphones of the Giornale Radio Rai, reassures: "I have never talked about a government crisis, we simply ask for a postponement to improve" the Mes. Then the thrust to the former government ally: "For me what they say on that side has no credibility. We have so many things to do for the Italians".

Conte: "I will not sign blank bills. Possible postponement"
Premier Giuseppe Conte - in an interview with Corriere della Sera - is very cautious: "We are moving in a package logic, we have done a majority summit on this. Package means that the project includes banking and monetary union: it is right that Italy expresses itself only when it has an overall evaluation of where it is going, I still have not signed anything, let alone a blank bill. Already tomorrow - continues the interview from London, on the eve of the NATO summit - we will enter into I live on the banking union dossier, I have no intention of signing in white. There are so many variants in a package logic, even from a procedural point of view and there are so many ways to affirm this method ".

"There are 19 countries - explains Conte - that are writing a reform, there is a national synthesis to do and then a European one. If you bring me to the banking union a project that I don't like to Italy I don't sign the Mes, and it's not blackmail, this is package logic, questioning everything. Be sure we won't be fooled ". The prime minister, therefore, does not exclude a postponement: "We have already avoided so many pitfalls, I did not embrace the MEP fisticistically in Parliament, but we must say that it already exists. We must avoid the propaganda fanfare that raises the spread, Italy it has a sustainable debt and the Mes is activated on a voluntary basis. We fought to have the debt assessment not automatic ".

Delrio: "No more blackmail from Di Maio. Go ahead with a government contract or go to the vote"
Critical to the position of the 5 Stars, in particular on the Mes, the leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber, Graziano Delrio: "I see threats like 'without me this does not pass' or 'we are the needle of the balance'. We must respect all solicitations coming from the majority forces, even more so when they come from the strongest party in Parliament: the 5-star Movement. But I don't like Di Maio's approach. Blackmailing allies cannot be a method "he said in an interview to the Republic. He adds: "We are not afraid of the elections. We did not even have it last summer when two splits had not yet occurred (Renzi and Calenda) and we could have strengthened the Democratic Party by running to the polls. Instead we chose the country and the Italian families that otherwise they would have paid the 23 billion Salvini tax on VAT ".

"We need - he specifies - a pact based on what we decided in August in the government program and on the common themes that Beppe Grillo constantly remembers: an agenda for the environment, attention to social justice, a new sustainable development. If someone thinks that it is not possible to do it, tell us clearly.