{"id":417395,"date":"2025-01-29T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/01\/29\/confcooperative-nuova-legislatura-ue\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:49:32","slug":"tariffs-nrrp-and-competitiveness-confcooperative-in-brussels-for-new-eu-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/29\/tariffs-nrrp-and-competitiveness-confcooperative-in-brussels-for-new-eu-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs, NRRP, and Competitiveness: Confcooperative in Brussels for new EU legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The protection of the Italian identity in its different forms: economic, productive, of excellence,\u00a0but, above all,\u00a0preparatory work ahead of a\u00a0new European legislature full of challenges. Confcooperative lands in Brussels to meet with the ‘European Italians’ of the institutions and reason together on the National Recovery Plan \u00a0(NRRP), anti-tariff measures, trade, and defense of the ‘Made in.’ “A large construction site that the previous legislature started\u00a0and on which today is up to\u00a0the member states, which must implement and present an action plan by the end of the year,” summarizes Maurizio Gardini,<\/strong> president of Confcooperative<\/a>. “We are a stable part of a discussion\u00a0table to\u00a0create this action plan,” <\/strong>he pointed out.<\/p>\n

Restoring competitiveness in\u00a0the European industrial system, intervening in\u00a0state aid regulations, and considering how and whether to adjust budgetary rules to \u00a0“balance\u00a0innovation with the preservation and safeguarding of what is an indispensable factor for us:” all this was discussed with Italian MEPs from the various groups, as well as Executive Vice President Raffaele Fitto.<\/p>\n

In the background, the specter of trade tensions with the United States\u00a0that US President Donald Trump threatened<\/a>\u00a0lingers. “We are concerned about the tariff\u00a0policy<\/strong>,” Gardini admitted at the end of the institutional mission to Brussels. “Tariff calls tariff, and so you generate a policy that does not allow the movement of goods.” At the same time, however, some\u00a0types of free trade —\u00a0along\u00a0the Mercosur model —\u00a0are also a source of concern. The president of Confcooperative again criticizes the agreement signed by the European Commission.<\/a> “They don’t have the same rules to stay on the market,” Gardini fears. “The agricultural tradition in that area comprises chemistry that has disappeared here for decades.” It\u00a0creates a situation whereby “we stop doing clean agriculture and then import agricultural products that do not have the same quality requirements.” For Confcooperative,\u00a0 there is a need for “reciprocity”, and the agreement does not guarantee it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meetings with Italian MEPs and Raffaele Fitto to take assess the situation. President Gardini: “We are a stable part in a discussion table.” He reiterates his ‘no’ to the trade agreement with Mercosur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":417391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712,25727],"tags":[26411,30297,26598,27047,29951,26632,29038,27987],"class_list":["post-417395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-confcooperative-en","tag-dazi-en","tag-eu-en","tag-accordo-mercosur-ue-en","tag-mercosur-en","tag-tarifs","tag-trade-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417402,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417395\/revisions\/417402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}