Not even one euro should be taken out
of the EU's cohesion funds to fund the new ReArm Europe defence
plan, Premier Giorgia Meloni rold the Senate Tuesday.
"I take this opportunity to announce that Italy does not intend
to divert a single euro from the Cohesion Funds for defense and
we are all in agreement on this", Meloni said in her
communications to the Senate, in view of the upcoming European
Council, speaking about the 800 billion euro ReArm Europe
approved last week.
Meloni recalled that the 800 billion of the plan "are neither
resources taken from other spending items nor additional
European resources" and that "Italy opposed that a share of the
Cohesion Funds be automatically moved to defense and it is a
battle we have won".
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