Italy, Germany To Seek Joint Approach To Climate Change

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Germany and Italy will seek a joint approach to climate change and the environment, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on 18 November after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The two countries agreed to form a joint commission that will work to "bring our positions closer together," Berlusconi said at a joint news conference with Merkel. "As Germany and Italy are the two main manufacturing countries of Europe, we do not want" new EU rules on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to "have too heavy an impact on our businesses," Berlusconi said after the pair met in the northeastern Italian city of Trieste.