Premier Paolo Gentiloni said
Thursday that the Italian banking system was getting stronger
again thanks to a series of government-sponsored rescues and
those operations had not seen any gifts to bankers.
He also said Italy was not seeking any "discount" in its
request for budget flexibility from Brussels.
Gentiloni said "there are the conditions for credit to regain
vigour, helping solve the residual difficulties still present in
the (banking) sector".
He said that "thanks to the banking system and the operations
made by the government I think the sector has overcome its
biggest difficulties, as the markets and the EU recognise".
Gentiloni denied there had been any "presents to bankers" in
the State's recent rescues of Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Veneto
Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza.
He said such claims were "facile demagoguery".
The premier described the "intervention to safeguard savings"
as "just and dutiful".
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