said The billion from the proposed European reconstruction Fund would have to be, and for reforms, used, EU Commission, head of Ursula von der Leyen, in a video message to a future conference on Saturday in Rome. “We will not, as it sometimes borrow our member States, money from our children, just for today, spend more.”
The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has loaded for the multi-day conference high-level speakers who joined via Video. He wants to advise, among other things, about how the recently of von der Leyen proposed EU-building instrument “Next Generation EU” can be used in accordance with the Corona-shock.
Conte has promised an “ecological change” and a more modern country. “We can’t return to afford (…) to the Status quo prior to this crisis,” said the non-party politicians. Italy should build on its beauty. “When we schedule the reboot, we need to make sure that the whole world can draw attention to the beauty of our country.”
bureaucracy, long legal proceedings, corruption and the influence of organized crime on the public sector in Italy for a long time growth. “The decisions (in the case of Italy) today, will shape the Italy of tomorrow,” said von der Leyen.
The debates Forum in the palatial Villa Pamphilij in Rome is referred to as the Assembly of the “estates-General”, the “Stati Generali”,. With representatives from politics, economy and society.
in Front of the Villa, it came to smaller protests. “While you are robbing our future, celebrating her,” it was said on a poster. Italy’s government is in the criticism that, as promised, the Corona-aid didn’t arrive in many people still. The Opposition had criticised the event as a showcase for the Premier.
In connection with the Coronavirus-induced lung disease Covid-19 died in Italy so far, officially, more than 34’000 people. Economists warn of catastrophic economic effects in the already highly indebted country.
The Head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, said that the EU structure funds could only develop with the modernization of its effect. “We are going to get a “Bigger Bang” (bigger Bang/effect) for every Euro spent, if countries simultaneously address structural reforms.”
The EU Commission had proposed the end of may, a debt-financed construction program in the amount of 750 billion euros in the next seven-year EU budget. Alone for Italy of the EU are in accordance with the proposal-authority 173 billion euros as grants and loans reserved. However, the difficult negotiations of the EU-member States about the program are still to come.
“We need to tell us now, dear friends, that this enormous use of European funds, the Commission ( … ), but also the individual countries and individual governments on a hard trial,” said EU Commissioner for economic Affairs, Paolo Gentiloni.
(SDA)
