"Absurd: first the approval of the Mes, then the backstop to secure the big banks and finally, if time remains, the coronavirus emergency. This is the agenda of the Eurogroup to be held on Monday. Just to make clear to all the order of priority of things. It is not acceptable. Italy must make only one request: the excerpt of the discussion on the Mes and the inclusion, as the only possible point, of the coronavirus emergency ". So Alessandro Di Battista in a post co-signed with Barbara Lezzi and Ignazio Corrao.
"The Eurogroup has a duty to discuss and make decisions regarding the aid needed by our country and the rest of Europe in this moment of emergency. Strengthen health systems, support public and private investments and introduce compensation systems for businesses forced to close or who have lost significant portions of revenues due to the coronavirus. Emergencies are fast, they do not wait for the cumbersome European procedures. It is time to adapt Europe's action to the demands of European citizens ", writes the ex M5S member together with the senator and the MEP. "The agenda of the Eurogroup of 16 March 2020 is to be considered, by Italy, outrageous. The only possible answer is, therefore, an even more rigid and radical rejection (which was already done regardless of the timing) of the treaty by our State, which is the third "shareholder-contributor" (17.9% equivalent to approximately 16.3 billion euros) of a fund which could only access certain and expensive conditions ", the three M5S representatives continue , which conclude: without intervention "it is clear that it will be for the Italian Parliament to put an end to this debate by not approving the ratification." (