Renzi: now changing Europe “The 3% limit is outdated” – Corriere della Sera

Renzi: now changing Europe "The 3% limit is outdated" – Corriere della Sera

Interview with Christiane Amanpour

Milan , October 3, 2014 – 11:15

     
     
 

” This is a very dangerous time, we have to change Europe. ” He says the premier Matteo Renzi on CNN. “We have to change Europe because it’s right,” because “the problem is the direction.” “I think it is absolutely important to reduce the power of the bureaucracy in Europe, the level of power of the technocrats in Brussels,” he concludes.

Interview

The statements by the Prime Minister are extrapolated from an interview with the American network, which will be broadcast tonight (20 hours to Italian) in full. With historic journalist network, Christiane Amanpour, Renzi talks about the challenge of Hollande European Union (and in particular to Angela Merkel) on the roof of the 3% deficit / GDP: “There is a problem in my position, because they are absolutely convinced that 3% is a parameter of the past, but Italy is accused of having lost credibility because it did not comply with the parameter in the past. So on this, our position is clear: we will respect the 3% ceiling. Obviously, if the French President decides, for France, not to comply with the 3% ceiling no one can say that this is incorrect. Europe must stop behaving as masters with schoolchildren, Europe is a community of destinies, of values, it is a place for the future. I prefer France Hollande and Valls 4.4% to that of Marine Le Pen. ”

“Changing Europe”

In conversation it also speaks of those who according to Renzi Europe’s problems are political: “I think it is important to reduce the power of the bureaucracy in Europe. I think it is absolutely important to reduce the level of power of the technocrats in Brussels. ” “We have to change Europe,” is the line of Renzi. “I agree” with David Cameron “we have to change Europe because it is correct, because it is right before the referendum of 2017 in the UK. We must do this not only because there is a referendum, but also because it is absolutely correct to say that the problem is the direction “of the European Union. So Matteo Renzi responds to a question by Christiane Amanpour for CNN, on the position of the British prime minister stay in Europe of the United Kingdom. “Europe is not simply an economic community, a community of souls, of the future – said Renzi – For me it is important that the UK remains in the EU but it is absolutely important that the EU is in the hearts of its citizens’ .

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Renzi at Downing Street

 

“Italy is back ‘

European issues will be therefore the focus of the interview, but it will not be the only issues touched. Meanwhile, yesterday, in England, Renzi has also won the backing of David Cameron on the prospect of a more flexible Europe. Support came at the end of a day in which the prime minister, in front of investors, came to say that ‘Italy is back. After the reforms, in ten years, Italy will be at the helm of Europe. “

October 3, 2014 | 11:15

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