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Europe's response to Biden's IRA plan: Italy stands out from Paris and Berlin

2023-02-08T18:08:47.725Z


Giorgia Meloni's Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, gave an interview to Le Figaro Rome If in the train that took Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz to kyiv on June 16, Mario Draghi accompanied the Franco-German couple, this time Italy was not on the trip to Washington, led by Bruno Le Maire and Robert Habeck. " We weren't even informed about it, " confides, a bit bitterly, the Italian Finance Minister, Giancarlo Giorgetti, during an interview with Le Figaro , the Financial Times


Rome

If in the train that took Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz to kyiv on June 16, Mario Draghi accompanied the Franco-German couple, this time Italy was not on the trip to Washington, led by Bruno Le Maire and Robert Habeck.

"

We weren't even informed about it,

" confides, a bit bitterly, the Italian Finance Minister, Giancarlo Giorgetti, during an interview with

Le Figaro

, the

Financial Times

, the

Wall Street Journal

and the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

.

If we had taken such an initiative, we would have been accused of sovereignism and anti-Europeanism

.

Facing the United States

, he says,

it would have been better to have a real response from all of Europe and not just from two countries, and this well before the presentation of

the Inflation Reduction Act

in Washington.

»

Because it is a resolutely European response that Italy would like to see the Twenty-Seven adopt in the face of the American plan, which must be discussed at the European Council on Thursday and Friday.

Rome is hardly enthusiastic about the plan…

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Source: lefigaro

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