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07 December 2019"We have never received pressure from the US on the subject of trade dialogue with China over the past few months. We received a warning on 5G". Thus Minister Luigi Di Maio met the foreign press at the Farnesina on the sidelines of the Med-Dialogues forum. "We agreed - he added - that we needed a restructuring of our cyber security system". "Then the fact that Italy is the first country from the G7 to sign the Via della Seta gives Italy an advantage that we want to use for the benefit of our businesses. And on this neither from the US nor from the EU have I ever received objections" he stressed.
If European companies are competitive they will beat the Chinese
"We are on the single European market where by law the principle of competition is in force": if a European company like Ericsson wants to offer 5G services "it can compete with other subjects and if it is able to guarantee a competitive offer, it will surely win all the tenders as do other start-ups "who work in this sector," explained Di Maio.
The principle of competition is in force in the EU single market
"We are in the single European market where laws say that the principle of competition applies when a public entity needs services from private individuals or a private individual needs other services from other individuals. I do not believe that Huawei and Zte are the only ones capable of offer services on 5G, perhaps they left first, but as they say all the principles of the single European market must compete ". "Italy is the European country that has the strictest 5G legislation, the Silk Road has not been signed to make agreements on 5G".
From Trump no threat to Conte for web tax and duties
"The confrontation between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and US President Donald Trump at the NATO summit was cordial and very friendly and there were no threats on web tax and duties" the minister then specified, reporting what was reported by the same Count on interview with the White House tenant.