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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