The Italian government is looking forward to the visit of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Italy this coming week “with great interest,” Deputy State Minister for European Union affairs Sandro Gozi told ANA-MPA on Sunday. “The Italian government is looking forward to the visit of Alexis Tsipras in Rome with great interest,” Gozi said, adding that the change of government “that took place in Athens is particularly important, and we are ready to hear with interest and sincerely the requests and proposals of the Greek government.” The Italian minister added that Italy believes “the national elections are not just a democratic parentheses — a country must continue to follow the line the previous government has mapped out. It is clear we understand the value of the elections and therefore we are particularly interested in seeing what they will propose — both Alexis Tsipras and (Finance Minister) Yanis Varoufakis — about Greek-European relations, especially in terms of the new, great process for the political governance of the euro.” Gozi said it is necessary to decide whether the right path for an alternative course would be to hold a summit about the debt, especially since many in Europe are against this solution, which needs the approval of at least 19 countries. The Italian government “wants to understand in detail what the Greek government proposes to the troika of its creditors as an alternative course and how Rome and other creditors can help.” “It is obvious that the recipes adopted the last few years were inadequate. Otherwise, your country’s public debt would have dropped, not risen, as it actually did, while we must have a viable social reality. But it’s not what happened,” he added. Italy “is one of Greece ‘s creditors but wants to take a logical stance and not throttle its debtor,” he stressed, asserting that “Tsipras and (Italian Prime Minister) Matteo Renzi, even if approaching things differently, represent the strongest messages of change and political innovation that Europe has expressed this past year. (source: ana-mpa)
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