ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The increase in defence spending is a goal to be pursued from here to 2035. Then you will see if it will be necessary to get to 5%. We must also respect the balance between defence and safety and social and health costs. The left lives a thousand contradictions: once he wanted to bring out NATO from Italy and Italy from NATO, while today he complains of the reduction of the American presence. We are absolutely in favour of a European pillar as part of a Western alliance. It would be good not to have to spend on defence, but if Russia attacks Ukraine and threatens Europe and if the Middle East remains a powder, it is evident that it serves”. Thus the President of the Foreign Commission and Defense of the Senate, Maurizio Gasparri, intervening in “Agorà” on Rai 3. “We are not so far from Iran to be out of the reach of Iranian missiles, which can reach the 4,000 kilometres of range. We hope that the Iranians are no longer led by a theocratic and obscurantist dictatorship, but we don’t know what will happen and so we have to think about our security. We defend the Italian industry, protagonist of important international agreements, and value our strategic companies”.
“The government has a very clear line: transparency, no sweat, will to strengthen a European pillar and a common defence, which also involve concrete choices. We will see if the left, which often recalls this perspective, will then be willing to approve the economic consequences. We have a leading defence industry, from which we must supply ourselves, and international agreements ranging from Japan to the United States. We are also strong exporters in the field of defense technology,” Gasparri concludes.
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