Italy has been through "an
economic crisis as long as two world wars", Foreign Minister
Angelino Alfano told a press conference with German counterpart
Sigmar Gabriel Monday. "Today there is a plus sign, it's not
brilliant, we can do more but after so many years it has
replaced the minus sign," he said, recalling that "Germany took
at least 10 years to emerge from a condition of difficulty". In
Alfano's view, Italy needs more time to allow structural reforms
to have their full effects on the economy, which is showing
timid signs of recovering.
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