Senate OKs majority Brexit resolution (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, June 27 - The Senate on Monday approved a majority resolution after Premier Matteo Renzi reported to parliament on the Brexit.
    The motion gives the government a mandate to activate Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty after a majority of Britons voted to withdraw from the European Union last week. The motion confirmed "Italy's commitment to the EU" and called on government to "change Europe by contributing to making it more humane, more just, closer to citizens, more cohesive, and strongly rooted in the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality".
    As well, the motion tasks government with telling the EU that banking union must go hand in hand with a common bank deposit guarantee and "parallel measures to reduce and share bank risks".
    The Senate also requested "a great conference to field proposals for a new European governance....to overcome Europe's current situation of stall and weakness, which was aggravated by the (Brexit) referendum".
    Further, the motion called on government to continue pushing for a European migration compact to aid African countries of migration origin and transit.
    The motion passed with 151 in favor, 73 against and six abstaining.
    Senators further approved three separate resolutions by the opposition rightwing anti-EU Northern League, Silvio Berlusconi's opposition center-right Forza Italia, and the ALA group of former Berlusconi aide Denis Verdini, whose centre-right caucus provided the swing vote that got center-left Premier Matteo Renzi's landmark civil unions law approved last month.