Being leftwing means cutting taxes says Renzi

(ANSA) - Rome, April 4 - Being leftwing means cutting taxes for business and boosting public and private investments to grow the economy, Premier Matteo Renzi told an executive meeting of his centre-left Democratic Party (PD) Monday. He said Italy, having achieved key reforms, now had the authority to transmit this message to the whole of the EU via the European Socialist caucus (PES) in the European Parliament. "Before now we didn't have alternatives, we were stuck between a rock and a hard place", he said.