Mogherini says Italy and EU both wanted flexibility (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, January 15 - Federica Mogherini, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said Friday that both Italy and the European Commission had wanted to introduce greater scope for flexibility in the EU's budget rules. She was speaking after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker argued that he had passed the flexibility changes, not Italian Premier Matteo Renzi, during a stinging attack on Friday. "There are lots of things that Italy and Europe have done together in the first year of the Juncker Commission," Mogherini said. "(These go) from the introduction of the rules on flexibility, which Italy very much wanted and which the European Commission very much wanted and which benefit everyone, to the great challenges at the European level on the management of immigration".