Rome. If he were still prime minister, Romano Prodi would agree to put new sanctions on oil and gas in Moscow. But he specifies that, “since sanctions also produce consequences for those who impose them, and in the Italian case they are serious consequences, I would demand tools for rebalancing”.
The former premier and president of the European Commission observes to QN that the consequences would differ from country to country. “The enormous difference in the price of energy significantly unbalances the economic relations between the United States and the EU and between the various European countries”, explains the professor. Prime Minister Mario Draghi talks about sacrifices on gas. Prodi agrees, and adds the theme of businesses: “Domestic consumers must do their part – he says -, but the most difficult problem is that of businesses, because steel cannot be melted or a ceramic tile cooked at lower temperatures. to those necessary “.
The government is on a tour of Africa to look for new hydrocarbon sellers. “It takes time to replace all Russian gas – comments the former prime minister -. The only reliability is self-sufficiency, but we are very far away ». Faced with the war in Ukraine, “the EU has shown a unity that I thought was complicated to achieve – notes the former president of the European Commission – but this unity must now be consolidated day by day”. According to Prodi, the new leader of Europe “in terms of foreign policy can only be him”, Macron, “because only France possesses the nuclear weapon and has the right of veto in the UN Security Council,” he explains. “Unlikely”, according to the former prime minister, that Le Pen will take the lead in the next ballot.