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March 28, 2020 "It is important to see all the political forces, even those that may have been tempted by the exit from the European Union, to ask all Eurobonds together today. Eurobonds are a great opportunity for Europe to demonstrate that it can react to a crisis like this. It is true that today we all have to share risks with Eurobonds, but we can also share great opportunities tomorrow ". So the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, at Euronews.

"In times of war, because at this moment Italy feels at war against an invisible enemy that is the virus, countries need to make debt to make investments and, obviously, the creation of that debt must be supported by the central bank" adds Di Maio, who concludes: "The suspension of the Stability Pact must necessarily provide, at the same time, support from the European Central Bank on the issue of government bonds. It is essential. We also want to follow that recipe which Mario Draghi indicated in these days ".

We need to make debt, the ECB supports
"The suspension of the Stability Pact must necessarily provide, at the same time, support from the European Central Bank on the issue of government bonds. It is essential. We also want to follow the recipe that Mario Draghi has indicated in recent days. moments of war, because at this moment Italy feels at war against an invisible enemy that is the virus, countries need to make debt to make investments and, obviously, the creation of that debt must be supported by the central bank ", he Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told Euronews.

We need a great alliance for the vaccine
"If we have to work on a vaccine that can protect our populations forever, we can't afford delays. And how do you speed up the process to get a vaccine? With a great international alliance on vaccines. We can't even allow the vaccine it can be of few: it must be of all ".

Aid from Russia and China but Italy does not change its location
"There was a phone call between the Prime Minister Conte and President Putin. The Russian Federation has sent masks, lung fans and cores for the disinfection of our public buildings and our cities. They have done their help, an action of solidarity. Italy is not a country that must fear having to bow to a subjection of other states as a result of aid. We are in the G7, we are in difficulty and we have many friends in the world ". Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio says so in an interview with The Global Conversation, published by Euronews.

"Even before this crisis, we always said that we looked to China as a commercial partner. And our relations with China, as we have said in the past, could never have changed our geopolitical position in the structures and alliances, with NATO, with the United States of America, at European level - says Di Maio - At this moment, we cannot think of conceiving the aid mechanism, which did not come only from China, as an Italy's decision to change its geopolitical position. We are allies of the United States, we are in NATO, we are in the European Union, but like Italy. Historically the Italian Way has always been the representation of our country as a bridge between the west and the east, with great relations in all over the world and, thanks to those relationships, all over the world there are countries that are helping us ".