Meloni: "Ready to intervene again with mobile excise duties"

"We are always ready to intervene again, particularly with the mobile excise duty mechanism. As of September we have around 170 million that can be spent for this objective. We are asking ourselves whether it is more effective to spend it at this time, when there are containment measures in any case, or to keep it as a reserve when those measures end. It also depends on the holding of the cap. Let's see what happens in the next few hours. I hope that in the next few hours the price cap can be fully restored, then the evaluation will be made downstream". Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this at the end of the Med9 summit in Split, responding to a question on the high cost of fuel.

On the request to the EU for greater flexibility for inflation "it seems to me that there is interest because it is obviously a question of common sense. Then it is still a long debate, because to arrive at answers of this type a convergence must be found between the Commission, the member states, the Council but there is certainly interest in listening". Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni added at the end of the Med9 summit in Split, explaining that she "had the opportunity to talk about it with President von der Leyen during our discussions", and that the topic "was not only raised by Italy, for example Greece also did so".

"Three years ago, on 7 October 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks massacred men, women and children, attacked young people gathered to listen to music, snatched innocent people from their families and dragged them into captivity. Today we remember the victims of that barbarity and renew our closeness to their loved ones, to those who suffered the horror of the kidnapping and to the Israeli people". The Prime Minister had previously stated in a note released this morning by Palazzo Chigi. "The time that has passed" - added the Prime Minister - "does not mitigate the gravity of those crimes. No cause can justify the deliberate massacre of innocents. Remembering this also means renewing the commitment against every form of anti-Semitism". Meloni's words had arrived precisely in the moments in which the Prime Minister had landed at Split airport to participate in the Med9 summit, welcomed by the Croatian Secretary of State for Europe, Andreja Metelko-Zgombic, and by the Italian ambassador to Croatia, Paolo Trichilo.