China/Italy: No to colonisation says Salvini

(ANSA) - Milan, march 11 - The Italo-Chinese memorandum cannot lead to the colonisation of Italy, Deputy Premier and League leader Matteo Salvini said Monday.
    Salvini said Cabinet Secretary Giancarlo Giorgetti had explained that the memorandum must safeguard Italy's strategic interests and "this is the position of the whole League," Salvini said.
    "It it's a matter of helping Italian companies to invest abroad we are willing to talk to anyone," Salvini said.
    "If it's a question of colonising Italy and its firms by foreign powers, no. And the treatment of sensitive data is a national interest. Therefore the issue of telecommunications and the treamtent of data cannot be merely economic".