PARIS — France and Italy are officially pushing together for exempting strategic investments from EU spending rules.
- Giorgio Leali
- Politico
French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday urged the EU to allow countries to spend more when it comes to key investments.
“We need to have more room for manoeuvre and enough key spending for the future and to ensure our sovereignty,” Draghi and Macron wrote in an op-ed published Thursday in the Financial Times.
“Just as the rules could not be allowed to stand in the way of our response to the pandemic, so they…