The Italians want a tighter channel
What emerges from a Swg study for the British embassy in Italy
Italians miss the overseas. And there is no Covid-19 or Brexit emergency that holds.
In fact, from a SWG study for the British embassy in Italy, it emerges that more than three out of four Italians (77%) can't wait for the health emergency to end up going to the United Kingdom.
A share that rises to 86% in the range between 25 and 44 years. As proof – as the London representative in Rome, Jill Morris essentially pointed out – that the Italian-British relationship is bomb-proof.
“In this regard – he explained – we are closely following the collaboration between Oxford and the Italian company Irbm, for the research of a vaccine. I welcome with great appreciation the wish of those who are calling for an intensification of exchanges in the fields of scientific research and innovation, but also of sustainable development, energy and climate change. Fundamental issues on which the United Kingdom and Italy have the incredible opportunity to work together in view of their respective presidencies of the G7 and 20 as well as the precious partnership within the British presidency of COP26 ".
The Swg study reveals that three quarters of Italians who have spent at least a year in London and its surroundings for work and / or study reasons speak positively of their experience.
Compared to Brexit, the majority of Italians remain critical (52%) even if the number of those who appreciate the referendum choice rises. However, the majority of Italians who, Brexit or non-Brexit, intend to travel to the United Kingdom for study, work, business (64%) or tourism (58%) reasons remains largely in the majority.
Six out of ten Italians want a closer link between the two countries, a share that rises to 74% in relation to the establishment of a free trade area, to 71% for collaboration on security and defense, to 64 % for a controlled management of migratory flows.
The possibility that the negotiations between London and Brussels on future UK-EU relations will end with nothing is feared by 84% of Italians, among whom the majority also fear that this choice would weigh substantially equally on the United Kingdom and the Union. European. In any case, the percentage of Italians who care about maintaining a deep relationship between Italy and the United Kingdom rises to 68%, with peaks of 83% among those who wish for bilateral collaboration in the field of trade and investment, 82% in terms of cooperation in scientific research and innovation and 77% in terms of sustainable development, energy and the fight against climate change.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/gli-italiani-vogliono-una-manica-piu-stretta/ on Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:50:02 +0000.