Premier Paolo Gentiloni said in
Tallinn Friday that "we are concerned that the EU ambition is
above all in the management of security, in migratory issues and
investments in Africa."
He also stressed the importance of a "greater integration on
the economic level with a relaunch of expansive growth
policies."
These issues will be discussed over the coming months, he
said, and the debate may not at times be "easy".
He said "we're not interested in models but in relaunching
expansive policies".
Gentiloni said on his arrival at the Digital Summit in
Tallinn that "I hope that the government which will be set up in
Germany will contribute to the drive necessary for growth and
employment policies."
He said the level of collaboration with Chancellor Angela
Merkel "has always been positive".
Gentiloni said ahead of the Tallinn summit that the EU's
response to current issues "must be ambitious".
He said "today is the time for the various European policies
to give themselves a switch-up in ambition".
"I'm convinced we can arrive at steps forward," he said.
Individual EU countries "not only can but must work in
coordination with each other in enhanced cooperation" on a Web
tax in the absence of an agreement among all the EU members,
Gentiloni said.
This is the "sense of the document" that Italy, France,
Germany and Spain "agreed in Paris at the end of August", he
said.
Gentiloni said on Catalonia Friday that "it is clear that we
as countries of the EU respect the laws of every country in our
home and in other people's homes without interfering in their
internal dynamics but referring to current laws".
Catalonia is seeking EU mediation on its banned independence
referendum.
Italy's role is to unite and "keep together" the proposed EU
reforms of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and
French President Emmanuel Macron, Gentiloni said.
"We must foster the convergence" of the proposals "animated
by (the pair's) European ambitions", he said.
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