The structure and institutions of the
European Union are too slow to cope with the challenges the bloc
faces, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said Tuesday.
"Europe is now at a crossroads: it must choose whether to
accelerate its integration or accept decline," he said via
video link at the XX Spain-Italy Dialogue Forum underway in
Barcelona.
"This is the meaning of both the Draghi and Letta reports.
"Certainly the EU structure does not help and the functioning of
the community institutions is now clearly too slow with respect
to the political decisions that the new international context
presents us with regarding ecological transition and growing
commitment in the security and defense sector.
"An example of the complexity that Italy and Spain have
inadvertently found themselves experiencing was the complication
of the process of selecting and approving commissioners, a
slowness and complication that compares with the speed with
which other actors move in Asia and North America".
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