Following last week’s meeting with the Coordinators of the ECON Committee to discuss the Coronavirus emergency, it has been decided to begin a series of meetings between the ECON Coordinators and the Presidents of the main European institutions that are engaged in tackling the economic implications of the pandemic. Today we have inaugurated this cycle…
Below is the text of the statement produced by the ECON Committee that I chair, following an internal debate among the respective coordinators, in which we ask for stronger and braver economic measures at the European level. It is unfortunate that the ECR and ID political groups that list Fretelli d’Italia and Lega Nord among…
To counter the Coronavirus emergency in the EU member states, we need a common approach. I have discussed this on BBC World News.
Today Italy has received the official reply of the European Commission to the letter sent by Finance Minister Gualtieri to Vicepresident Dombrovskis and Commissioner Gentiloni in which he announced the new measures to contrast the Coronavirus emergency and in which he requested to exclude such extraordinary measures from the 2020 deficit objectives. The reply is…