24/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - the Committee for a Federal European State has written to the Italian foreign affairs minister, Franco Frattini, who in an interview in the Financial Times on 18 February announced that Italy, free from its duty in the presidency of the Council of the EU would be proposing courageous solutions to the problems affecting the transfer of sovereignty in Europe. According to the committee, Italy is expected to "take the courageous initiative of proposing to the five other founding countries …a pact for the creation of a European federal state". Proposing the creation of the "first core of a European federal state open to those how want to join, Italy will be in this way able to denounced the attempts of resolving European problems through the hegemony of certain countries", asserted the press statement. In his commentary, Frattini was particularly opposed to limited summits and any reduction in the financial resources of the EU. He also asked whether decision about foreign policy and revision of the treaties be taken by majority voting.