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In Italy, where emergency measures to support the economy have raised public debt to 161% of GDP, from 135% in January, the debt burden on fewer and less wealthy future generations is starting to cause concern. palpable.
And feeds hopes for an easy solution.
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Responding to a question from
La Repubblica
on the possibility of canceling these “Covid debts”, exceptional by their nature and amount, the President of the European Parliament, the Italian David Sassoli, a good-natured Democrat, replied: “
the This working hypothesis is interesting, but it must be reconciled with the cardinal principle of debt sustainability.
" Nothing more.
And the newspaper headlined straight out: "
Sassoli: Europe must cancel Covid debts."
"If the information was largely inflated, he nevertheless confirmed his proposal four days later by affirming:"
in this decisive moment for Europe, there can be no taboos.
An idea that the Minister of Finance
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