The European Commission has received the letter in which Italy requests to use the Safe funds. This was announced to ANSA by a senior EU official. The billions requested are ultimately 8, out of the 14.9 originally ‘booked’.
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“The decision of our country to activate the Safe funds allocated by Europe for investments also in the defense sector for 7/8 billion is wise. It is not about fueling warmongering ambitions. But about thinking of defense and therefore the autonomy, the freedom of our country. The international context has greatly worsened. Threats from the east and south are multiplying. We need modern structures that also deal with marine depths as well as space or cyber reality. The defense guidelines clearly indicate a serious and possible path that Italy must support with investments that will have a technological impact also on sectors outside defense. In this context, there are also fundamental needs such as financing operational activities, which require more resources, as well as issues concerning personnel welfare. For Forza Italia, it is essential to complete the allocation for dedicated pensions, as the center-right government has committed to do also during the renewal of the contract for the security-defense sector. We have financed this budget item in the past with an initiative that I have also promoted several times. Now it is about defining a stabilized framework to enable investments in the pension field, essential to guarantee the rights of the security-defense sector. Since 2009, a specificity has been recognized for this sector that must be supported with facts. For Forza Italia, also in view of the examination of the budget law, this is an absolute priority. Thinking about defense also starting from the women and men in uniform.” Declares the president of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, FI senator Maurizio Gasparri.
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