Immediately unlock the ports of Ukraine. The head of the Italian government, Mario Draghi in his speech to the OECD clarifies the immediate steps to be taken to «avoid the risk of a food catastrophe. Our efforts to prevent a food crisis must start from the Ukrainian ports of the Black Sea. We must release the millions of tons of cereals blocked there due to the conflict. The UN mediation efforts is a significant step – he added – we must offer President Zelensky the assurances he needs that ports will not be attacked. And we must continue to support the beneficiary countries, just as the EU is doing with its food and resilience tool ”.
Then he relaunches arguing that to become autonomous from Russia it is necessary to “accelerate on hydrogen and renewables”. In short, in his inaugural address to the OECD council, the Italian premier ranks the major Western priorities: from energy to climate, admonishing that, “the crisis” must not be an excuse “to betray the climate objectives. “. Then he defines the agreement on “global taxation at the G20 in Rome” as “historic” and declines the first anti-inflation recipe: “A ceiling on energy prices would limit it”. Then, the theme of sanctions and the state of the art on the results that those measures have produced: «The G7 and the EU have shown considerable unity and solidarity in supporting Ukraine and in putting pressure on Russia to resume negotiations. The EU alone approved 6 sanctions packages that have dealt a severe blow to the oligarchs close to the Kremlin and to key sectors of the Russian economy ”.