Detailed interview granted to the newspaper L 'Unita Sandro Gozo, despite Deputy president of the Italian government Minister for European Affairs, Sandro Gozo, entitled "Athens is an ally" key "for a more democratic Europe."

Detailed interview granted to the newspaper L 'Unita Sandro Gozo, despite Deputy president of the Italian government Minister for European Affairs, Sandro Gozo, entitled "Athens is an ally" key "for a more democratic Europe."

Mr. Goji refer to the results of yesterday's visit to Athens "to strengthen the Greek-Italian cooperation," as the newspaper writes. Furthermore, the L 'Unita recalls that "at its meeting on July 13, Italy, together with France and Cyprus was one of the few countries that fought to avoid a Greek exit from the Eurozone."

Specifically, as regards its relations Renzo government with the Greek government, Sandro Goji states: "We follow with great interest the Greek political framework, which is now much clearer.

There is, finally, a course of reforms which we battle with the French and Cypriots, in that the Greek government and parliament work seriously.

We want, clearly, to continue this bilateral dialogue, because for us is fundamental, economic and monetary union can be strengthened and developed in greater depth.

It is the reason why, in July, was active against all probability Grexit, and related projects were shown. This means that we must be willing to share our experiences and our best practices, such as that of the fight against all forms of fraud against the Community budget.

An issue in which the European political area, in charge, made significant progress, like the fight against corruption, with the creation of the Italian public authority against corruption and the work produced by the leader, Raffaele cantons. "

Asked the L 'Unita if "cooperation with Athens mean more power in the fight against austerity", the Italian undersecretary despite the chairmanship of the Government replies:

"One Greece, which follows the path of stabilization can be done and a positive role for our major priorities at European level, which are mainly two: First of all, the creation of a governance of the euro that is more democratic and transparent and strongly characterized by substantial social initiatives. That is why I presented the initiative of Italy for a European grant to combat unemployment.

This is an idea presented by Labour Minister, Giuliano Poletti, during the Italian semester of Presidency of the European Union and which reported again, then the Matteo Renzo and Finance Minister Pierre Carlo Padoa. Also, it must complete the banking union, but also to rethink the democratic control of the euro and the role of the European Parliament.

We would like the European Parliament could perform an important role not only for the governance of the euro, but also in what concerns the verification of compliance with the commitments made by the Athens Memorandum of July. It would be something important for Greece, but it would be important to indicate how we should start to manage our big cases, cases of common interest in the euro.

 

With larger, ie, democratic control. Secondly, we are convinced that we can prepare a new dynamic promoting European integration towards a genuine political union. It is what we call "Rome 2017". The 60 years of the Treaty of Rome should be an opportunity for anniversary celebration, but also a time of new political momentum, because 2017 is the year when there will be major political changes, such as, for example, the elections in France, Germany, and will take place and the British referendum.

Finally, referring to the Adriatic-Ionian region, Mr. Goji underlines: "This is an initiative we undertook during the Italian semester of Presidency of the European Union. It is a form of extended cooperation between Member States and regions whose shores are washed by the Ionian and Adriatic.

Includes 13 Italian regions, four EU countries (Italy, Greece, Slovenia and Croatia) and four candidate countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania). This is 70 million people and there is a great potential to benefit from the optimum use EU funds and implement projects which can be financed with the European project Juncker. "