Don't have to reassure Europe - Savona (3)

(ANSA) - Rome, June 12 - European Affairs Minister Paolo Savona said Tuesday he did not need to reassure Europe about his anti-euro views. "It's the press that must reassure Europe, not me, you created the problem..." he told the foreign press club.
    Savona said he would only speak about his new post - which he got after being barred from the economy ministry by President Sergio Mattarella for his anti-euro views - when "the government line is decided". Savona, 82, said at the presentation of his autobiography Like A Nightmare And Like A dream that "I will speak about my activity as a minister when the orientation of the government on the problems to be tackled is decided". Savona, a former industry minister in the Ciampi government in 1992-3, said "I am preparing to face complex and delicate problems". Savona's initial rejection led to the failure of the first government bid by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League. It was revived when he was moved to his current position.