Premier Paolo Gentiloni said Monday
"not only our countries (Italy, France, Germany and Spain), but
all 27 EU countries, must make choices, within the framework of
the European Commission's White Paper, without which we risk
jeopardising the very future of the European project".
Ahead of a four-way summit in Paris, he said we need "a more
integrated EU, but which can permit different levels of
integration.
"It is right and normal that countries have different
ambitions and these ambitions can get different
answers, maintaining the common project".
On March 25 in Rome, at a special summit on the 60th
anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, he said, "the Union will
start again from the European people".
We need a social Europe and common defence policy, Gentiloni
said ahead of the Paris summit with French President Francois
Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Premier
Mariano Rajoy.
"We need a social Europe, which looks to growth and
investments. A Europe in which those who lag behind doesn't
consider the EU a source of difficulties but an answer to their
difficulties," he said, adding that "steps forward are needed in
common defence...to protect our safety", steps Italy, France,
Germany and Spain agree on.
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