"Next Wednesday Ursula von der Leyen will make the proposal of the commission, the position of Italy and my person is that this is an important step, the Commission can do even better". This was said by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaking to reporters before leaving the Senate. "In the Franco-German perspective we are talking about 500 billion in grants", compared to loans "is a whole other story. These are crucial days," he underlines.
"If a country falls, we lose the green deal first, according to European solidarity, third the single market, perhaps even the currency and perhaps even the European Union itself. In these days in these weeks in these months we are playing the European future" . This was stated by the Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans , during the AsvisLive event "Orienting choices, shaping the future". Timmermans says: "we need three things: to act quickly, with adequate means (it will be a lot of money), and we must do it jointly - I know it well and I say it as a Dutchman clearly".
The initiative between Berlin and Paris, he adds, "is now important in order to make investments, but behind it there is also a fairly revolutionary rationale on the future of the European project ". According to him in Berlin they "understood that we cannot continue as before". "I was surprised at the Franco-German initiative - says Timmermans - because, if we see what the German government has said, it is truly a revolution for them: we must go further in European integration, we must rethink some premises that we have always defended" . The Vice-President of the Commission also underlines how taxation, the European Union's own resources, and also the treaties will be discussed, "seeing it from Berlin - he observes - is truly surprising and also gives us some breath because they have passed the their fears. " "Let's see - continues Timmermans - if we can also introduce responsibility for a sustainable future in this reasoning".
Cyprus is the first eurozone country to announce that it will use the Mes credit line for healthcare expenses . The Cypriot Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides announced this - according to the Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros also taken from the Greek newspaper Ekathimerini. "Obviously we will use the Mes for health care expenses," said the minister, explaining that the government is calculating the costs already incurred and future ones, such as the funds used for the new intensive care unit of the Nicosia hospital, to fill in the form already available.
