At 7pm the Council of Ministers at Palazzo Chigi. However, the agenda changes. In a new version of the call, communicated by Palazzo Chigi, the "illustration of the lines of the outline of the bill" on the "State budget forecast for the financial year 2027 and multi-year budget for the three-year period 2027-2029" is no longer foreseen. Furthermore, the preliminary examination of the legislative decree with supplementary and corrective provisions to the consolidated texts of administrative and criminal tax sanctions, minor state taxes, tax justice and on the subject of payments and collection was omitted from the agenda.
The clarification from Palazzo Chigi - 'Due to a mere clerical error, an outdated agenda of the Council of Ministers was sent'. Sources at Palazzo Chigi explain this in relation to the initial inclusion of the illustration of the lines of the maneuver within the agenda of the Council of Ministers, underlining that 'after all, it was Minister Giorgetti himself who clarified in the Chamber that the approval of the budget bill would take place at a later time'.
Yesterday the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti explained that 'the composition of the maneuver will be defined in light of the completion of the European procedure' for approving the request for activation of the national safeguard clause. This should happen at the Eurogroup meeting on 9 November. Therefore this year the non-peremptory deadline of 20 October for sending the budget bill to Parliament cannot be respected. Meanwhile, today the Council of Ministers will approve the Dpb, the backbone of the maneuver, after Parliament approved the deviation. Then the government, to translate the deviation into rules, will have to wait for the formal green light from the Eurogroup to the Nec and the authorization from Europe to deviate from public finance objectives.
The government is preparing to pass the bills with which the process for differentiated autonomy will be completed for the Regions that have requested it, Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria and Veneto. On the agenda of the Council of Ministers convened at 7pm there are in fact the definitive agreements with the four Regions, and indeed the bills for the attribution of further forms and particular conditions of autonomy, pursuant to article 116, third paragraph, of the Constitution. The bills will then have to be examined by Parliament.
The bills, presented by the Minister for Regional Affairs and Autonomy Roberto Calderoli, provide for the attribution to the Regions of "further forms and particular conditions of autonomy" in a series of subjects, health protection, coordination of public finance, civil protection, professions and complementary and supplementary social security. According to the law, the government must approve them in the Council of Ministers within 45 days from when the Regions each sent their own pre-agreement, which Veneto approved on 3 September, Liguria on the 9th, Lombardy on the 10th and Piedmont on the 22nd.
The Senate and Chamber will then have to approve the bills with an absolute majority. From the stage of the League event in Pontida, on 20 September Calderoli announced that he would "immediately bring the bills with the definitive agreements to the Council of Ministers", asking for "a commitment from our secretary and our allies: the same times used to quickly approve the electoral law must also be used to approve differentiated autonomy".
Also in the Council of Ministers is the new Highway Code and decrees on the former Ilva and Campi Flegrei
There are also two law decrees on the agenda of the Council of Ministers convened at 7pm at Palazzo Chigi, one with "extraordinary interventions for the Campi Flegrei as well as further urgent civil protection provisions" and one with "urgent measures to support the workers of the former Ilva, related industries and for the industrial relaunch of the territory", and a legislative decree entitled "New Highway Code".
Under examination, in addition to the Dpb, the illustration of the lines of the maneuver and the bills on Differentiated Autonomy, there is also a legislative decree with coordination and corrective interventions of provisions issued in implementation of the fiscal delegation, and another with additions and correctives to the consolidated texts of administrative and criminal tax sanctions, minor state taxes, tax justice and on the subject of payments and collection.
Then there is a constitutional bill with "provisions concerning the adaptation of the special statute of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region". The definitive examination of the draft decree of the President of the Republic on the regulation of qualifying qualifications for the exercise of the profession of biologist is then envisaged.
