(Finance) – The “guidelines issued” from the prime minister Giorgia Meloni addressed to the ministers” to quickly start” the process of monitoring and reviewing public spending. This was explained, as we learn, by the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Alfredo Mantovano in the information on the spending review last night in the Council of Ministers.
That letter, he clarified, “will be followed by the activity under the responsibility of the Minister of Economy”. To achieve these objectives, each ministry can make use of experts, as already provided for in the last maneuver it assigned overall 20 million for this year, 25 for 2024 and 30 from 2025.
Last month the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti announced a new review of public spending for 2 billion euros in cuts in 2024, “including those already foreseen”. “I have two witnesses here next to me, I said during the cabinet meeting that the work that was not done by individual ministers will be done by the Minister of Economy in their place, and the spending cuts will be even greater,” he added.
Meloni said she agreed with Giorgetti’s request “to invite each ministry to verify in detail the resources currently spent, the expenditure chapters, the measures currently financed”.
“We must cut waste and inefficiencies and spend the few resources we have in the best possible way, because this is a political government and governments are political if they choose and assume their responsibilities,” he added.