Short-term rentals: the EU proposal splits Italian politics

The new European regulation proposal on short-term rentals splits Italian politics: welcomed by the Democratic Party, judged too soft by the left, it instead supports the rising Eurocriticism of a centre-right majority shaken by the advance of the ultra-right in Germany and undermined at home by Roberto Vannacci.

The League against the Europe of "bureaucrats"

«Yet another attack by Brussels on the homes, private property and savings of Italians», thunders Matteo Salvini's League. After the one on green homes, another "Von der Leyen madness", claims the Northern League, mirror "of a Europe led by unelected bureaucrats".

The Melonians: ideological response to a real problem

The Melonians also start the attack. According to the Fdi MEPs, the group leader Carlo Fidanza, the vice president of the European Chamber Antonella Sberna and Denis Nesci, the EU Commission does "only fuel the concerns of citizens that have already emerged in recent days". With the new rules "the right to property is compressed, the competences of the member states are invaded, territories are pitted against each other". In summary: if the housing crisis is real, the response "is ideological and based on prohibitions". A recipe "dropped from above" that will discourage investments and further reduce the housing supply. The opposite - they argue - of the path taken with the Italian housing plan.

For Forza Italia "the home is sacred"

"Jørgensen stop", also protest the Azzurri, who have always been against crackdowns on the sector. The leader Antonio Tajani, in line with the position of the European People's Party, has been repeating for days that «the home is sacred and private property must be defended. Forza Italia rejects the ideology of bans coming from Europe."

The dem line: "duty" intervention