Sandro Gozi was Secretary of State for European Affairs in the Italian governments of Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni between 2014 and 2018. Elected to the European Parliament on the French Renaissance list, he is a member of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament.
For Sandro Gozi the challenge is the relaunch of relations between the EU and the UK. The Renew Europe MEP and secretary general of the European Democratic Party – elected president of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly for the Partnership between the EU and the UK – believes that there is room ‘to establish new forms of cooperation’ and that we must learn the lesson from Labour’s success: ‘Elections are won in the centre’.
The Italian MEP and Secretary General of the European Democratic Party is once again a candidate on the French presidential majority list for the elections on 9 June. His aim: to represent European citizens, while positioning himself as a fervent supporter of Macronism.
We live in a Darwinian moment. In these moments, it is not the strongest who wins, but the one who demonstrates the best capacity for adaptation and transformation: a capacity that the Union has shown it has with the Recovery Plan, while struggling on health and its role in the world.
Italy is already the primary beneficiary of the European response and will be even more so if we keep up the political pressure in the coming months. How much is already available to Italy as an emergency response to the crisis? From SURE 15-20 billion, from the EIB 35 billion, from the ESM 36 billion, as an ‘extra’ from the EU budget 2014-2020 another 6/7 billion. To which is now added Ursula Von der Leyen’s proposal, Next Generation, which envisages 80 billion in grants and 90 billion in loans, again for Italy. Total: 250-255 billion, about 15% of Italy’s GDP.
Dear Editor,
Yesterday your paper rightly denounced the worrying increase in the number of EU infringement procedures opened against Italy since the start of the Conte government: already 14, at a rate of about 1.5 per month. And more will follow in the coming weeks. At the start of the Renzi government, Italy was the country with the most infringements of any major EU country. A real European disgrace for one of the founding states. At the end of February 2014, there were even 121 infringements against Italy, and the trend was one of continuous increase.
Corriere della Sera editorial on 18/02/2019. Dear Director,With reference to Paolo Valentino’s commentary on “Renzi “regrets” his choice of Mogherini”, in which he speaks of the alleged mistake of not appointing Enrico Letta as President of the European Council, I would like to make it clear that the then President Matteo Renzi never ruled out…
