(ANSA) - ROME - The Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian macro-region will soon have a nationwide operations centre coordinated by the Prime Minister's Office and the Foreign Ministry. The decision was made by the Interministerial Committee for European Affairs (CIAE), chaired by undersecretary for European affairs Sandro Gozi, which was convened at Palazzo Chigi. ''We will soon be calling - Sandro Gozi announced - a coordination meeting for the operations centre. The first step will be the identification of an operational plan that Italy will then submit to the Governing Board'', the body that oversees the Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion. The CIAE also discussed some of the most relevant issues in Italy-EU relations, such as the so-called digital single market, the energy union plan, the implementation of European directives and the participation of EU institutions in Expo 2015. (ANSA).