(Finance) – The Council of Ministers approved, on the proposal of the premier Mario Draghi and the Minister Franco, la report to the Parliament which updates the public finance programmatic objectives on the basis of higher revenues of € 6.2 billion.
The Government will present the report to the Chambers for the necessary authorization so that the executive can use the resources provided. The higher revenues will represent the main component of the new aid dl that the government will approve after the parliamentary passage, with the aim of counteract the effects of expensive energy on households and businesses.
During the Council of Ministers, according to what is learned, the President Mario Draghi has addressed the invitation to the ministers to prepare an orderly handover aimed at providing the new government with an organic picture of the activities in progress, of the obligations and of the deadlines close together, with the aim of transmitting all information useful for the prompt exercise of their functions. To this end, the ministers will coordinate this activity with Undersecretary Roberto Garofoli.
Meanwhile, waiting for the extraordinary Council of EU Energy Ministers to be held tomorrow in Brussels. Three the most important measures: a ceiling on the price for gas imported from Russia into the EU, a maximum profit threshold, however profitable, for renewable or low-carbon energy sources, which will make it possible to finance the support measures of the most vulnerable families and businesses with the surplus revenues, and a “Solidarity levy”– in this case fiscal intervention – which will be imposed instead on the extraordinary “extra profits” of the companies supplying energy from fossil sources.