The work of the extraordinary EU summit is over.
After the conclusions on food security and energy, the leaders also adopted the conclusions on defense.
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THE SANCTIONS - "It was a European Council that was a bit long but we can be satisfied with the results". Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at a press conference.
"The sanctions agreement was a complete success.
Imagining it a few days ago would not have been credible. Italy is not penalized by the agreement, even for us the obligation not to import Russian oil will start at the end of the year, and so we will be like everyone else ".
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at a press conference.
The inflation situation is different between Europe and the US and this justifies a faster restrictive monetary policy in the US and more gradual in Europe.
"Inflation creates transfers of wealth, penalizes the lowest, poorest sectors. The government has so far already spent about 30 billion precisely to mitigate the effect of energy prices on the most vulnerable families and there has been an intervention also on businesses. We will continue to do whatever is necessary to help the weak and also try to help the productivity of businesses ".
We need to be closer to families and businesses.
"The moment of maximum impact of all the sanctions approved so far" on Russia "will be from this summer onwards".
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at a press conference in Brussels.
"EU action on energy will develop on many fronts. We have been satisfied with the functioning of the energy market and high prices. The Commission has officially received a mandate to study the feasibility of the price cap," said Draghi.
The battle over food security cannot be lost, otherwise the countries that risk famine
and that are not already with the West will feel betrayed and will never come to the side of the alliance.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at a press conference.
RELATIONS WITH SALVINI - "When the government was formed, it is a government firmly placed in the EU,
in the historical transatlantic relationship. It has always moved along this track and continues to move. It is aligned with the partners of the G7 and intends to continue on this path. This is it, he does not get moved by these things ".
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at a press conference in
response to a question on the hypothesis of Matteo Salvini's trip to Moscow.
"What I also said to Copasir" about any relations of representatives of forces who are in government is that
"the important thing is that they are transparent relations," he said.
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"The League is a great team, which has won and will win for a long time, so the attempt to fuel quarrels and divisions is always repeated the same, boring and useless. (ANSA)
"For ten years I have argued that it is necessary to create a
central fiscal capacity
. It is certain that until the Next Generation Eu nothing was done. And that was a very important message and a fundamental precedent. Solidarity was not seen before and in that opportunity has been seen. It is a precedent that is impossible to forget and I expect it will be used ".
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at a press conference.
"The needs are many and it is unthinkable that they can only be addressed with national budgets," he added.
UKRAINE
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Candidate status is objected to by almost all major EU states, I would say all of them except Italy.
Candidate status is currently not predictable due to the opposition of these countries but imagine a fast track "to Ukraine" yes. And it seems to me that the Commission also agrees "on this perspective.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this at a press conference when answering a question on the possible assignment of candidate status for the EU to Ukraine already at the June European Council.
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