(Finance) – The Premier Giorgia Meloni promotes the Maneuver which he defines as “serious and common sense”. “I want to thank Antonio Tajani, Matteo Salvini, Minister Giorgetti and all the ministers,” she says on the sidelines of the EU-Gulf countries summit in Brussels after saying she was “very proud and satisfied” as well as “very happy with the work done and the unity of the majority and the speed with which the maneuver was approved”.
“We focus on work, on incomes, on wages, on the health of citizenswithout increasing taxes and keeping accounts in order.” And, precisely on healthcare, the Prime Minister is keen to underline: “There have never been so many resources on healthcare.”
And precisely on the funds intended for healthcare the debate heats up. “If it were to be confirmed that only 880 million would be allocated to healthcare for 2025 and the remaining 3 billion for 2026, we would be faced with a scandalous mystification which nullifies all the proclamations that have been made up to now”, Pierino Di Silverio tells Ansa, secretary of the largest hospital doctors’ union, Anaao Assomed. “We are ready – he added – for strong protest actions”.
From the tables sent to Brussels, in which the interventions envisaged by the maneuver are traced by macro-category, indicating only their financial effects for GDP purposes, it is possible to deduce the amounts of the increased spending on the healthcare front. But the Ministry of Economy and Finance denies that Only 880 million euros will be allocated to healthcare in 2025: “Next year, 2,366 million euros more will go to healthcare compared to 2024”.
More than a tax on extra profits and resources for public health. It’s the usual shell game, as if Italians were stupid”, says the secretary of the Democratic Party on her social networks Elly Schlein. “Even today – he adds in a video in the post – the government gives us a good dose of daily propaganda. They announce 3.7 billion more on public health, but the truth is that for 2025 they only put 900 million which are added to the billion already allocated. So less than half of what they have already allocated, certainly not the 4 billion that we were asking for to make new hires and really reduce the waiting lists”.
On the banks – During the press point, Meloni also spoke about the banking chapter. “On the one hand we wanted to be able to have resources that could be redistributed to families with low incomes, but we also didn’t want to give the signal that the banks are adversaries, which is why there was collaboration” he recalled in response to a question on the measures introduced in the maneuver on banks and insurance companies.
On migrants – “There are many countries that look to the Albania model, cwho look at Italian migration policies. Tomorrow the meeting with the countries we call like-minded will be well attended. The matter is not only Italian, it is European” underlined the Prime Minister.