Gualtieri: "Joint commitment with France for a fund to support the most affected sectors"

2020-11-26T11:38:07.463Z

"France and Italy are very close allies, they are friendly nations, they have been side by side in the important choices made at European level in recent months, starting with the Next Generation EU". The Minister of Economy and Finance, Roberto Gualtieri, said this after meeting his French colleague Bruno Le Maire. "Today - he added - there was a fruitful exchange of views on numerous dossiers". "We shared the need to launch a common proposal, at a European level, to have new common economic support for the sectors most impacted, which will also be impacted more in the coming months, starting from the Christmas holidays: ski resorts, bars and restaurants, tourism sector. From this point of view, a further common commitment is also needed at European level ", said Gualtieri, after having met his French colleague Bruno Le Maire. "It is essential that the ESM reform be definitively adopted and ratified" by Italy, said the French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, interviewed by 'la Repubblica' on the day of his arrival in Rome to meet with the ministers Gualtieri and Patuanelli. Le Maire is convinced that "the situation will improve from a health and economic point of view, but our responsibility is also to anticipate new shocks". In this regard, for the Frenchman, the reform of the Salva-Stati fund, on which Italy had vetoed, represents a sort of "life insurance policy" and an "additional safety net for the banking sector and therefore for all savers. Europeans ". Le Maire shies away: "I have no advice for my Italian friends. We are sovereign nations - he observes - but we have made sure that access to the MES does not stigmatize anyone and does not place conditions that are unacceptable for any country".