Italy is not asking other to pay its
debts, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Thursday amid a
stalemate at the Eurogroup between using coronabonds, which Rome
and France advocate, or the European Stability Mechanism, which
northern countries have proposed in the face of Italian
opposition.
"We don't want other countries to pay our debts, Italy has
always paid its own debts," Di Maio told Italian TV.
At the Eurogroup, he said, "they are deciding if Italy can
spend all the money it needs to help young people and the less
young" through the coronavirus crisis.
"We want to create the market conditions to be able to spend
all the money that is needed for infrastructures, jobs, and
technological innovations".
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