The price of diesel drops, the hypothesis of mobile excise duties disappears

There is still time for mobile excise duties. The return of Eni's recommended prices for diesel to 2.19 euros per litre, announced on Friday, makes government intervention on fuels less urgent. One less urgency in an already busy agenda, in view of a budget law that will impose difficult choices. One of the first was to use the safeguard clause granted by the EU for energy in full and, only in part, that for defence, allocating 14.4 billion to each until 2028. Defense has renounced around 8 billion in possible overruns, "it didn't cost me any sacrifice", said the minister, Guido Crosetto, at the Festa del Foglio, "if the social system does not exist or collapses there is no need for defence".\n\nAsk it. al Sole\n\nIn-depth questions generated by 24Ore AI\n\nQuestions are automatically suggested by 24Ore AI\n\nbased on the content displayed.\n\nThe Public Finance Programmatic Document\n\nOn Monday 12th the Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, will present the Public Finance Programmatic Document (DPFP) at a hearing in the Chamber with the new framework of public finances and rising growth to around 1% in 2026 and then slows to 0.8%. The deficit, expected to be below 3% this year, would allow the exit from the infringement procedure and to deduct, in the European calculations, the deviation allowed for defense and energy expenditure for 2027 and 2028. Parliament will be called to express its opinion on this issue on Tuesday 13th, which will discuss, in addition to the DPFP, the report on the budget deviation. For approval, an absolute majority of deputies and senators is required.\n\nLoading...\n\nTowards the Council of Ministers\n\nThe Council of Ministers is also scheduled for Tuesday on the Budget Plan, a more streamlined version of the DPFP with the framework of the budget law which must be sent to Brussels by mid-month. The council could be preceded, on the same day or the day before, by a summit between the leaders. Then the Prime Minister will be busy in Brussels, at the European Council, also to make the case for the Italian proposal relating to inflation. The issue is very technical and concerns the interpretation of the factors relevant for compliance with the current stability pact within the energy clause. For the executive vice-president of the EU Commission Raffaele Fitto, "a complete evaluation will be able to be made in the next few days and I think in the next week". An answer could perhaps arrive before the budget law, which must be presented to the Council of Ministers by October 20.\n\nThe tension on fuel is eased