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"we are Not a band of technocrats". "The time of the diktat is finished." Call-and-response. Jean-Claude Juncker and Matteo Renzi. It seems to be back to the beginning of the year, when the clash between the president of the European Commission and the Italian prime minister has touched tips high before settling down on the ok of Brussels to the 19 billion of the flexibility asked for by Rome. What happens? What happens is that you get to the heart of the negotiations, the Italian Building Berlaymont in view of the November 16th: the day in which the team of Juncker will give its opinion on the budget law of all member States. Therefore, also on the Italian one. In Rome, expect that the judgment of mid-November will not be the ultimate and link the nodes after the constitutional referendum on 4 December. But if it is a failure, Renzi would use it to raise even further the level of confrontation with Brussels. Meanwhile, tomorrow, the Commission will publish the economic fo recasts of the autumn. In Rome, hoping to not make a bad figure with that 1 percent growth expected in the Def.
it All started from a gaffe Juncker, spoke yesterday at the assembly of the european Confederation of trade unions. The president spoke about 0.1% of Italian expenses for migrants, and the earthquake, not without adding piqued that if Italy protest "I do not care". Pity that the 0.1% is not shown anywhere, neither in the budget law or in the letter of clarification from the Eu commission, where it speaks of 0.4 percent of the costs. And now does not even appear in the transcript of the speech by Juncker to the european trade unions. His co-workers have in fact taken steps to erase the shame of the error. The president, "he improvised," he explains today, the spokesman Mina Andreeva, throwing water on the fire: "The message is clear and that is that we will not leave Italy alone in the refugee crisis. Actions speak louder than words and there is no need to remind you of the support that the european Commission has given to Italy for the earthquake and the crisis of the re fugees".
it’s a story of 'qui pro quo' but at the bottom of the need to go back to sparks, there is in both Rome and Brussels. Juncker has the need to show to the hawks of austerity measures that Italy has not won easily, even if the Commission has any intention to meet the requirements of the U and not to obstruct the referendum campaign. For his part, Renzi can’t wait to the battle with Brussels: as a weapon in election but also to warm the engines in the game who wants to play next year. That is to say: the no of Italy, to the inclusion of the Fiscal Compact in the european Treaties. Kick-off to march in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, when all the european leaders will be in Italy.
But more immediately there is the judgment of the commission on the manoeuvre of the Italian. He says today the minister of the Treasury, Pier Carlo Padoan after the meeting of the Ecofin council and in particular after fact met the commissioner for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici. With him "I made the point on the budget", the Commission “has taken note of what is written in the letter of response, which was confirmed, and on the 16th there will be the’ opinion’ on all of the laws of stability", says the minister. The first of the 16, however, there is an antipasto (starter): tomorrow, the Commission will publish the economic forecasts of the autumn.
"I have the feeling that there will be slight differences but not significant deviations” in relation to the estimates submitted by Italy in Brussels, anticipates Padoan. "All the numbers that we have provided are well known and growth is what it is: 1 per cent in 2017. It seems to me that in the hearings of the commissions budget in Parliament, there have been observers who have denied the plausibility of those estimates. I confirm that the public debt is stabilizing, and that in 2017 will begin to descend. And we’ll see if tomorrow there will be specific comments on the part of a commissioner” during the presentation of the autumn forecast.
“allow me to claim that the turning point of the policies of the European Commission was there also, and I would say perhaps most of all, thanks to the action that the Italian presidency of the 2014 has made from the point of view of economic priorities. The flexibility linked to the reforms and investments are the result of that debate,” added Padoan.
Renzi put the load from the nineties. Speaks to local administrators in an initiative for a referendum to Fidenza and says: "everything that serves for the construction of the school do not listen to what they say, the authoritative soloni from Brussels-everything you need for the future and stability of our children goes out of the stability Pact”.
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