(ANSA) - BOLOGNA, 18 JUN - "There are conditions to avoid a recession, there are conditions to prevent the European economy from going into a crisis similar to that of ten years ago. to assure us of a transition towards renewable energies that allow us to diversify supplies and not have too heavy economic consequences on the energy level ".
So Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for Economy, speaking in Bologna from the stage of Repubblica delleIdee.
"We have to do it - he adds - having our backs straight on what the war in Ukraine means".
Speaking of relations with Russia, Gentiloni said that "in some ways it is also the end of great hope".
At the turn of the century, "grandiose illusions", such as "Russia's entry into the G8. This great hope for several years now - perhaps we have not sufficiently evaluated the annexation of Crimea - has faded. Putin is a person with a lucid design. Consider the dissolution of the USSR is a historic defeat and he thinks it is necessary to rebuild a geopolitical sphere around Russia, and therefore to expand towards the various EU countries ".
Finally, there is no fear of gas cuts from Moscow.
"We hope there will be no drastic supply problems in the next few months but at the same time we are not intimidated," she said.
"We work so that this does not happen but, if it happens, at the European level we have the levels of collaboration, storage, diversification that are able to withstand even threats of this kind", he added.
(HANDLE).