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"In Europe we have no time to lose, I believe it is a priority to accelerate progress towards three fundamental, strategic objectives for Italy and the national interest," Conte wrote on Facebook.These goals are "the modification of the Growth and Stability Pact to boost growth, overcoming the Dublin Regulation on migration flows and a package of special measures for the economic development of our South," he added.Italy's under-developed South should try to gain special status from the EU enabling it to launch such "extraordinary" measures, Conte wrote.During Paolo Gentiloni's five-year tenure as EU Economic Commissioner, starting in November, "investments need to be supported, beginning with environmental and social ones, with a view to sustainable development that will give new impetus to the Italian labour market," he said in the post."On the issue of migration, I will continue to work strenuously for a structural and non-emergency management of migration flows at various levels, and to agree an automatic mechanism for landings and redistribution, with an effective European returns policy."Italy has long argued that other EU countries must share more of the burden placed on it and other front line states by the influx of migrants arriving from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.Italy's new left-leaning government, which was sworn in last Thursday, intends to play a leading role "in this phase of renewal of the EU," the post concluded.The post came ahead of Conte's meetings in Brussels on Wednesday with European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen, European Council's outgoing President Donald Tusk, European Commission's outgoing President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President-elect Charles Michel and European Parliament President David Sassoli.( With inputs from IANS )

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