Gentiloni: the EU Commission hopes to have stable interlocutors

2021-01-16T18:08:59.475Z

To the European Commission "there is no doubt that by definition we always hope to have stable interlocutors and to have governments that share common European challenges as interlocutors". This was stated by the European Commissioner for Economy, Paolo Gentiloni, during a live broadcast with the Internazionale Festival. And Europeanism "was one of the characteristic signs of the government born in September 2019. A piece of identity of this government - he said - was the European choice". "And here I stop, I do autogenic training sessions to avoid going further in these speeches", is the joke of the European Commissioner. "However, the fact remains, that it was there before and that I will remain after the parliamentary decisions next week, that for the Commission the quality of these plans and the times are very important in general", in particular on the national ratification procedures "things" must be accelerated, in our opinion the Coreper program is a bit too slow ". Italy cannot have unlimited public spending "The indication for all countries is to maintain an expansive budget policy and support for the economy", but "we must avoid the risk of confusing the message of reacting, supporting the economy , avoid recession, do good debt, with the idea that a country like Italy, but any other country, can have unlimited public spending in the face of this situation. I don't know I'm saying that austerity returns, but we need to be very rigorous in public finance ". Thus the EU Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni. "I am convinced that the government and Economy Minister Gualtieri are fully aware of this," he adds.