Federica Mogherini, the EU's
High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said Friday that both
Italy and the European Commission had wanted to introduce
greater scope for flexibility in the EU's budget rules.
She was speaking after European Commission President
Jean-Claude Juncker argued that he had passed the flexibility
changes, not Italian Premier Matteo Renzi, during a stinging
attack on Friday.
"There are lots of things that Italy and Europe have done
together in the first year of the Juncker Commission," Mogherini
said.
"(These go) from the introduction of the rules on
flexibility, which Italy very much wanted and which the European
Commission very much wanted and which benefit everyone, to the
great challenges at the European level on the management of
immigration".
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