Business and Made in Italy Minister
Adolfo Urso said Tuesday that the government will ask the
European Union to suspend "crazy" Green Deal regulations to help
businesses after US President Donald Trump imposed hefty tariffs
on imports to the United States.
"The European Union must release the creative energy of
companies that is being stifled by the regulatory system," Urso
said at the opening of the Milan Salone del Mobile furniture
fair.
"We will ask the EU for a shock measure to suspend some of the
crazy rules of the 'Green Deal', which has condemned the
business system to decay".
Premier Giorgia Meloni had previously said she wants the Green
Deal measures regarding the auto sector to be suspended.
The European Green Deal is a set of policies that seek to make
the EU climate neutral by 2050 with the ecological crisis and
global heating caused by human greenhouse gas emissions
increasingly a threat to the economy and to people's health and
safety.
There is speculation that Meloni may flight out to Washington
soon to meet Trump, with whom she has friendly relations, at the
White House and seek to act as a 'bridge' between the US
administration and Brussels.
"Italy will present its proposals, including, as far as it can,
bilateral-level ones," Urso said.
"Everyone is asking Prime Minister Meloni to play a bridging
role, something which must never be absent, especially in the
most difficult of moments.
"It is absolutely necessary to avoid an escalation of the
tariffs and tit-for-tat retaliation, because we would all pay
the cost, certainly us Europeans more than others.
"We must aim for a zero duty system between the two sides of the
Atlantic, also in order to reunify the West when, as today, it
has to face a global competitive challenge".
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