(ANSAmed) - ROME, APRIL 6 - Italian foreign minister Luigi Di
Maio on Monday discussed the Eurogroup meeting slated for
Tuesday and Eurbonds in an interview with state broadcaster RAI.
"At the European level, these are the most difficult talks we
have dealt with thus far. This crisis seems much worse than the
2008-2009 one. It is an unprecedented crisis and it must be
dealt with using unprecedented tools," he said.
"We are not asking to share the debt. We are asking for a
shared path for our future and that of Europe," Di Maio added.
"In Europe," he continued, "everyone is now aware that there
is no European Union without Italy. If one falls, everyone does
through a domino effect. I would like to note the words of Pope
Francis, which are applicable to the economic crisis, too: no
one saves himself alone."
Di Maio stressed that "we are not asking others to pay our
debt for us. We will pay it alone. Some countries believe that
there is no need to share the risk at the moment. We are not
asking to share the debt. We are asking to share a common path
for our future and that of Europe. Our idea is that we must
spend what is needed for the redundancy fund for workers, to
give money to entrepreneurs, and to postpone VAT payments.
Whatever is needed, that is what we will do." (ANSAmed).
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