'Italy should build nuclear abroad'

01 April 2008

Italy should build nuclear power plants in countries across the Adriatic Sea, Giulio Tremonti told the Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper. Tremonti could become finance minister if former President Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party is successful in the mid-April general election. Tremonti said Italy has had a 'bizarre political history' after the 1987 referendum he described as: 'Want a new Chernobyl? Yes or no, tick the box' and that political change is slow. In Tremonti's view, all the preconditions are present for joint ventures with nations around the Adriatic Sea (Albania, Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro) which are also short of power, but he would not name prospective partners.

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