(Finance) – The Council of Ministers of 28 August – the first of a long series of appointments which in September will see the prime minister and the government engaged on the hot fronts of politics – put an end to the summer of Italian politics. “I hope you have rested enough because we have a lot of work to do and an extremely busy schedule,” said the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni meeting the ministers after three weeks of vacation. “The government – Meloni underlined – will have to face a very demanding year which will culminate with the European elections and the Italian presidency of the G7”. He challenges that require “the maximum of compactness, determination, concentration”.
“There budget law – Meloni underlined – it will have to be serious, as it was last year, to support growth, help the weakest groups, give impetus to those who produce and put money in the pockets of families and businesses. So far we have achieved very important results, superior to those of Germany and France, the markets have rewarded our choices, the spread is low, the data on employment are excellent, the GDP in the first half surprised all analysts, the tax revenue trend is positive. But we have to keep our feet firmly planted on the ground. All observers tell us that the economic situation is becoming more difficult, starting with the slowdown of the German economy which has repercussions throughout Europe and on our industrial fabric. Therefore the available resources must be used with the utmost care”. The budget law will come into force after the majority meeting scheduled for 6 September. But the Prime Minister has already wanted to clarify the directives to be followed and the stakes, under the banner prudence. It must be, he added, a maneuver “serious, to support growth, help the weakest, give impetus to those who produce and put money in the pockets of families and businesses”. But it must also be political. “We must consolidate the direction of wedge cut, a concrete provision that – said Meloni – arrives every month in the paycheck “, and of the interventions in favor of the family, with the aim of combating the fall in the birth rate. The priority is no longer expensive energy. “The reliefs – said the Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti – will become topical again to the extent that gas and electricity prices recommend it”.
The government’s priority to outline the resources on which to build the maneuver is “avoiding waste and inefficiency”. The resources are “few”, Meloni said, and we still need to figure out how many on the basis – he specified Giorgetti – the progress of the negotiations at European level on the new Stability Pact. To raise cash is not excluded privatization road, solicited by Forza Italia, because “there may be shareholdings from which it is necessary to divest”. The scenario will be clearer when the executive launches the Nadef in a month. Palazzo Chigi and Mef are examining the wishes of the various ministries, which overall would exceed i 40 billion, well over 30 billion, the figure around which the total amount of resources could hover.
“This must also be the year of great reforms, starting from constitutional reform, on which Minister Casellati is ready with a proposal (the one on the premiership ed) which hits the two objectives that we set ourselves: to give stability to governments and to let citizens decide who should govern. It will be one of the first measures that we will launch, but there is also the completion of the differentiated autonomy, the justice reform, the fiscal delegation that we must complete”.
During the CDM Meloni lashed out against the Superbonus. “We cannot afford waste, we are paying heavily for the 110% Superbonus disaster and I invite Giorgetti to illustrate the numbers of this accounting tragedy that weighs on the shoulders of all Italians. Overall, the building bonuses introduced by the Conte 2 government, including the bonus facades, the documents of the Revenue Agency tell us there are more than 12 billion of irregularities. In the face of those who accuse the center-right of being a friend of tax evaders and scammers. Thanks to badly written rules, the biggest scam was allowed against of the state” said Meloni. The response from the M5s president Giuseppe Conte was not long in coming. “To continue in the direction of austerity and social injustice, Meloni and his clique need tools of mass distraction, scapegoats. The premier is building today the house of cards with which tomorrow she will justify a maneuver based on zero point , with nothing for workers and businesses. This is the only plausible reason why today Meloni has gone back to the past making ridiculous accusations against the Superbonus already swept away by the Annual Report of the Guardia di Finanza and by the economic advisor of Minister Giorgetti of the Mef – he commented on social media Conte – He is looking for scapegoats for a zero point maneuver. Giorgia Meloni – adds Conte – failed to report that the Guardia di Finanza ascertained that from November 2021 to June of this year non-existent tax credits were seized linked to the Superbonus for only 360 million, or only 0.5% of the total value of tax credits from Superbonus.Today we have the certainty that Giorgia Meloni is desperate, to the point of having to concoct a convenient narrative on the maneuver already in the last days of August that the Italians will remember for the government speculation on the high price of petrol and for the government indifference to the high price of living”.
On the front, Tim Meloni reiterated the government line. “After having found a serious solution for Ita with an agreement with Lufthansa, EU Commission permitting, and which sometimes raises problems that we hardly understand, now is the time to give a perspective to what was one of the international telecommunications champions – said the premier speaking of Dpcm on Tim –. The direction taken by the Government is the one that the centre-right has always hoped for and supported: to assume strategic control of the telecommunications network and safeguard jobs”.