Jean-Claude Juncker, Matteo Renzi writes: “Now we work together.” The President of the European Commission breaks the isolation in the middle of the controversy over the policy of tax breaks to corporations when he was prime minister of Luxembourg, and it helps to do so by sending four pages long and dense, written for four hands with his first vice-president Frans Timmermans. Target: Renzi and Martin Schulz, that is, the current president of the EU and the president of the European.
( The letter Juncker PDF )
A letter in which is repeated almost obsessively invitation to collaboration. Ten points program, to work on elbow and elbow full of “new beginning”, “growth” has become a mantra in Brussels thanks to Renzi, and responses “concrete” that institutions must give the euro-citizens . A letter, received Wednesday by Renzi and Schulz, who first of all a strong political value. Juncker is a former Prime Minister and EPP. Timmermans, on the other hand, is a former Dutch foreign minister of the Labour Party, the Social Democratic how Renzi and Schulz.
The initiative Juncker is not obvious a gesture of openness. The President of the Commission in its letter declares to be “ready”, after the adoption of the program in 2015, working with the European Council and the European parliament to ‘identify a list of priority proposals on which the institutions can commit to doing Rapid progress (fast track), with respect to both the contents and procedures. “
For the president and the first” vice “the Commission” should seize the opportunity for a new approach to restoring confidence citizens by showing that the EU can achieve results in their interest on the key challenges that are in front of our economies and our societies. ” A close “collaboration between institutions may convey a powerful message,” to promote “economic recovery” and fight a “unemployment remains unacceptably high.” Below is the invitation to the “exchange of views” on the ten points, which only partially reflect those already exposed by Juncker in Brussels, and to “share our initial thoughts on the priorities for 2015, as the basis for an exchange of views” continuous and systematic in “full compliance” of roles and responsibilities.
10 POINTS
And here are the ten points. The first: a “new impetus to employment, growth and investment,” according to a “investment package” to be 300 billion, to be submitted before the end of the year. Then the digital single market, the EU Energy resilient with a look-sighted policies of climate change, a stronger internal market and fair with a strong industrial base, a more robust and equitable economic and monetary union, the FTA trade with the United States (“reasonable and balanced”), an area of judiciary and fundamental rights based on mutual trust, so the key point for us of a “new politics of immigration,” which includes a common asylum policy, a new policy of legal migration strategies for security, and anti-terrorism measures. Finally, the strengthening of the EU as a “global player” and measures for transparency and democracy.
“We have to work this year on pragmatic grounds and at the same time promote reflections on the future institutional framework,” conclude Juncker and Timmermans. “We look forward to your reactions to these ideas and to discuss them further with you.”
The letter on Wednesday. On the same day Timmermans called a press conference to announce the package to $ 300 billion investment that should now be presented to the Board of Heads of State and Government of the EU on 18-19 December in some detail. The announcement also serves to release tension on the same Juncker after the scandal of tax in Luxembourg. The next day, Thursday, Timmermans here in Rome, on the eve of the G20 in Brisbane, Australia, centered on the theme of growth according to the address of the Presidency of Australia. And Brimbane Juncker Thin 300 billion. It seems, then, that something is moving in Brussels, Juncker is despite the shadow of Angela Merkel, and it seems so bitter filed a duet between him and Renzi on the EU bureaucracy.
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