La European Commission opens at flexibility and says she is “ready to consider expenses for the refugee crisis or earthquake or a country suffering from terrorist attacks like Belgium”. She said it Pierre Moscovici, EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs. Speaking at the Atlantic Council in Washington, the commissioner specified: "These flexibilities are precise, limited and clearly explained."
According to Moscovici, in general "a country must respect the criteria and reduce its debt, this is the main problem of Italy and Belgium". For the commissioner "there are obviously specific cases such as Greece", which has received an aid program from EU partners.
The openness of the European Union to flexibility clearly gives scope to the economic policy of Italy and of the Renzi government, but it is even more significant because, in addition to the budget, Eurocommissioner Moscovici also gives explicit political openness towards our country and towards the premier, who sheds light on the international dimension in which the same battle on the constitutional referendum takes place.
“In Italy – Moscovici argued – there is a populist threat and that is why we support Renzi's efforts so that it is a strong partner within the EU”. Obviously the Italian populists - from Brunetta of Forza Italia to Scotto of the Italian Left to Meloni of Fratelli d'Italia - take it badly and react with anger, but it remains to be seen whether the moderate right and the left Pd will eventually be able to forget the squabbles domestic issues and to understand the international dimension of the referendum on constitutional reform in the face of the wave of populism and nationalism sweeping Europe.
