The EU “takes note of the favorable position” indicated by the Commission to the contributions of the countries, “necessarily in line with the flexibility” exists.
‘The Commission will submit a proposal in January 2015, that the Council is asked to approve by June, so that the new investment plan Juncker can be activated in mid-2015 at the earliest. ” The EIB is “invited to begin activities using its funds from January 2015.
” The plan Juncker today presented to the Council is a first step, not the last, but it is a good first step. ” So the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the end of the European Council, stressing that it is a “political step, not just bureaucracy,” and “this is a cause for satisfaction” for the Italian Presidency of the semester .
“It is a compromise document” but for “the first time there is the word flexibility.” “There were those who wanted to delete” a reference to the consideration “favorable” for the purposes of the covenant of the contributions to the common fund. “I consider it a good thing: for the first time it is said that the investments that have a sense of the future of Europe are placed in a separate pact. It is a small step forward for Italy and a great step forward for Europe. “
” For them it is the first press conference for me is the last and I’ll be here just for the next five minutes, the next presidency will be in 2028-29. For Italy it is important to the stability, I will not be there until 2029 … for my country, however, could be big news. ” Jokes so then Matteo Renzi at the conclusion of the Committee, which effectively closed the half Italian, next to the President of the EU Council Donald Tusk and President of the EU Commission Jean Claude Juncker. And Juncker replied: “Certainly we’re still in 2029, I do not, you are, you’re good.” And then the EU President adds: “I have full confidence” in Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, “and I am sure that I do not disappoint.”
The European summits are not the its ‘flat’ favorite and Matteo Renzi does not hide it arrived in Brussels when his debut with a joke. The hashtag of the day? “A shot of life,” he says talking about the appointments that await him: “fundamental pre-summit PSE, then the EU summit and then, yet the final press conference of the Rabbit ….”
But the prime minister, beyond the jokes, arrives in Brussels, determined. Because at stake this time is the real game, the flexibility that he claims to ask the spin-off of investments for the great works from the ‘calculation of the Covenant. Ready to do battle – it also said in recent days talking about a Europe that does not change step will be lost – and try shores among colleagues to check if not its maximum target at least one step ahead in more than looms plan Juncker. Because if the “neutrality” for the purposes of the Covenant (the ‘favorable consideration pending written in black and white in the draft of the summit) of resources that States will put in the fund is a step forward, certainly not enough for him.
Meanwhile, cashing an opening, at least credit from Juncker says to trust in him and in his commitment to reforms: no ‘was certainly inactive “,” I have much sympathy not only for the president of the board, but also to Italy and I have no reason to doubt that once again will give an example to others, “says the President of the Commission.
And while pointing out that what he wants Renzi on the front of national investment the Covenant does not allow it, leaving the door open for discussion when – reminds Juncker – in January we will talk about “flexibility in the covenant.” And it is in that door left ajar that the strategy of Renzi wants’ wedge, trying to “widen the crack,” which opened in Europe that no longer speaks only stability but also growth and investment.
In the coming months, “we’ll see how to expand the investment policy,” says the responsible for the EU, Sandro Gozi. Certainly the passage is neutral to Renzi is not enough. And on this search shores. Today in Brussels also saw Hollande: an interview of ten minutes in which, probably, the flexibility chapter has done its part with a country, France, traveling well above the roof of the 3% deficit-GDP. With Angela Merkel Renzi – corridor between the Justus Lipsius – he exchanged a few words.
The TV of the internal circuit of the summit have immortalized the two chattering amiably, maybe more. Why the rock, once again, is the Chancellor, who continues to reiterate its refrain of all time and he insisted that the conclusions of the summit today – called to give the SIAE stamp ‘policy plan Juncker – next to the “neutrality” of resources that States will put the common fund, you did ‘un’aggiuntinà, providing the words’ to the current rules. “
Only three more words, behind which there is, however, the heart of the battle. A battle that Renzi is still decided to play all the way in his last summit as President of the 28.
Thursday, December 18, 2014, 21:40 – Last Updated: December 19, 0:01
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