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Renzi 'counting on Abe's leadership'

Renzi 'counting on Abe's leadership'

Premier extols culture to combat fundamentalism in Matera visit

Florence, 02 May 2016, 19:25

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(supersedes previous)Premier Matteo Renzi said at an Italian-Japanese bilateral meeting in Florence Monday marking 150 years of ties that he was counting on Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe's G7 leadership to boost world growth. "In less than a month, Japan will host the G7...I'm really counting on Abe's leadership on economic growth," Renzi said. Abe said "I and Matteo shared the awareness that the G7 countries are expected to accelerate structural reforms, accompanied by a mobilisation of flexible fiscal policies, to overcome the present crisis, prevent falling back into future crises and stimulate world economic recovery". He said the G7 would deliver a "strong message in this direction".
    Later during a visit to the southern city of Matera, which is to be the 2019 European Capital of Culture, the Italian premier extolled the need to invest in culture as a way to fight the rise pf homegrown religious fundamentalism.
    "We need culture and we need foreign policy," he said.
    "Europe is in crisis, not because they're coming in to hurt us from abroad but because there is an identity crisis going on in our suburbs - fanaticism has grown in the hearts of our cities".
    The premier also touched on crime and the Mafia. "Fighting corruption without mercy means bringing the culprits to trial," he said. "It doesn't mean saying 'they're all the same, they all steal'. Those who say so are doing a favour to the thieves, who must be put in jail". Renzi was speaking after a row over ANM magistrates' union chief Piercamillo Davigo, who said politicians hadn't stopped stealing, just being ashamed of it. The government has vowed to pass a law extending the statute of limitations on many crimes, especially graft, to stop so many trials timing out.
    The premier also said there was an "emergency" in the fight against "all forms of lawlessness, against the organised crime of the (Sicilian) Mafia, the (Neapolitan) Camorra and the (Calabrian) 'Ndrangheta". Renzi recalled that on Saturday he paid his respects to late Sicilian Communist politician Pio La Torre, who was gunned down by Cosa Nostra in 1982 after he introduced the crime of mafia conspiracy and framed a law on the seizure of organized crime assets. Renzi also recounted how United States President Barack Obama laughed when he told him Italy has had 63 governments in 70 years. "I don't want Italy to be laughed at," Renzi said. "I want it to become a stable country where winners govern and citizens choose". Renzi's Italicum electoral reform law has changed the rules to ensure the next general election produces a clear winner, which has not always been the case in the past.
   

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