Draghi: In order to avoid the food crisis, the lifting of the blockade of Ukrainian ports should begin

With his intervention in OECD Summit in Paris, the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi focused on the widest consequences of the war in Ukraine. “The EU should re-adopt emergency support packages“Said the Italian technocrat, so as to curb rising inflation.

“The effort made to avoid food crisis must start from lifting the blockade of Ukrainian ports“due to the huge amount of grain that is there”, stressed the Italian Prime Minister, recalling that “caused a constant increase in pricesn with catastrophic consequences on an international scale».

“THE UN effort is an important step forward“but unfortunately it is also the only one”, he added.

Mario Draghi referred to the decision taken by EU leaders to study the possibility maximum price for Russian gas imports, underlining that “this measure could limit the increase in inflation and reduce the flow of money to Moscow. “

At the same time, the Italian technocratic prime minister stated that “to tackle energy price increasesthe The European Union should take into accountas the possibility to re-adopt emergency support packages, such as “Sure”, which helped us to get out of the most difficult phase of the coronavirus pandemic».

“We need a new, similar tool which, however, focuses on energy“, Concluded the head of the Italian government.

Source: News Beast

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