During the night, in the Caserta and Salerno areas, all the hauliers and farmers' posts on the motorway network in Campania were removed. The garrison in Naples, in the area of the Bausan gate, was also dissolved by the demonstrators.
There are still many petrol stations that are fully booked while there are long queues in front of the open pumps. The return to normality is slow for supermarkets, which remained completely empty of most products and for which supplies are now restarting.
We are moving towards normalization in Calabria with the progressive removal, in these hours, of the last still active haulier controls after the suspension of the protest decided by Fedralog on Wednesday evening. Since yesterday, deliveries of fresh food, fruit and vegetables and fish have resumed in supermarkets, even if availability is still patchy. There are no particular critical issues at petrol stations. The hauliers, awaiting the meeting on 27 October at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, have decided to suspend the protest but declare themselves ready to resume mobilization in the event of responses that are not adequate to their requests.
"The new decree of the Meloni Government on the high cost of fuel does not satisfy us" because "the announced interventions are insufficient compared to the economic difficulties of fishing companies". This was stated by the Sicilian shipowners' federation which is asking for "a price of diesel between 60 and 70 cents per litre, clarifications on the 285 million euros of the European Metsaf regime and a tax moratorium for fishing companies". The Federation confirms the suspension of the demonstration in the Strait of Messina and announces a new phase of mobilization: the tax strike. From 24 October, the Federation explains in a note, a "new phase of protest called 'tax strike' will begin, aimed at drawing attention to the difficulty of fishing companies in meeting their tax and contribution obligations during the current crisis". The Federation "asks President Giorgia Meloni and Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti to evaluate an extraordinary provision which provides for the temporary suspension of the terms of payment of taxes and contributions for fishing companies in proven difficulty, accompanied by a subsequent installment payment without further increases". And it urges the introduction of "liquidity support tools, to prevent companies from being forced to permanently interrupt their activities". The Sicilian Shipowners' Federation reiterates that "the emergency of the sector cannot be addressed exclusively through occasional contributions", but instead believes that "a structural intervention is needed capable of containing the cost of fuel, supporting the liquidity of companies and guaranteeing transparency in the use of public resources". The Federation hopes for "an urgent discussion with the national government and the Sicilian Region, asking for written answers, certain times and verifiable data: the demonstration in the Strait of Messina is suspended, but the Sicilian fishing dispute remains open".
Taxi protest at the Mef on Monday against high fuel prices, they threaten to stop
"Those who know itTaxi know that we have never succumbed to ideological protests, but today we are faced with an economic emergency that is no longer sustainable". The president of itTaxi, Loreno Bittarelli, wrote this this morning in an editorial in the Economista, in view of the sector's protest planned for Monday 26 October in front of the Mef, in Rome. "With the tariffs administered by the Municipalities, we cannot pass on the record increases of petrol and diesel to customers: the costs are paid entirely by the workers, whose margins are eliminated. We will be in the square on foot, out of shift and without cars, to make our voice heard without causing inconvenience to citizens". The category will ask the Government for the extension of "Professional Diesel", an extraordinary compensation fund and real incentives for the green transition. "Without urgent responses - concludes Bittarelli - the concrete risk is the blocking of the service due to the material impossibility of covering management costs".
