Banks, Renzi: “The agreement with EU is at hand.” On the referendum: “The unpacking will not stand” – The Daily

Matthew Renzi across the board between the emergency bank and constitutional referendum . Interviewed by corriere.it , on the one hand the prime minister is optimistic, defining “within reach” an agreement with Europe on the executive projects. On the other hand, closes the doors to the hypothesis of an unpacking of the referendum question, circulated these days.

With regard to the negotiations between Italy and EU on the government plan to recapitalize banks, MPS in the first place, the prime minister explained that “an agreement consistent with current rules is absolutely within reach.” A perspective on which the Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem has closed the doors ( “The banks’ problems must be solved by banks and in banks”), while the chief economist of Deutsche Bank David Folkerts-Landau he has launched an assist in Rome ( “Europe urgently needs a bailout fund from 150 billion euro to recapitalize its troubled institutions”).

the president of Council then returned to minimize the sufferings of our own emergency lending institutions. “In Europe, the problem is not the Italian bank – Renzi explains – It ‘s an issue to deal with, solve, there are all the conditions to do so, but the credit issue concerns several establishments or more correctly the approach to be followed on some issues: I am more concerned about the derivatives of banks in other countries than for impaired loans of Italian banks “. A clear reference to the German banks, Deutsche Bank in particular, burdened by € 30 billion of high-risk derivatives. And he stressed: “The tranquility compared to the problems of some Italian banks to assure, we want depositors and savers are safe.”

Then the prime minister has returned to speak of the constitutional referendum and the hypothesis , circulated these days, you unpack the question. “In my view it unpacking does not stand – said Renzi – in the sense that I understand that it would simplify the understanding if the application was dry but it is at stake the Constitution and the Constitution has rules and the majority the lawyer said it was not possible to unpack and make the referendum a la carte. ” The head of government has also tried to dismiss the idea of ​​a referendum customization, appealing to the voters of the Five Star Movement : “I will only say that the referendum is on this particular point: for me a Elector M5s , including a simpler parliament and it costs less, and a more complicated and it costs more, I think the voter M5s will vote to reduce the seats. “

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