Salvini, new attack on banks: "5 billion contribution is common sense". Tajani: “No aggression”

MILAN – Matteo Salvini returns to the attack on the banks. The subject of the dispute is the contribution hypothesized by the government to finance the next budget.

"The words of the president of the ABI Antonio Patuelli are surprising, even bringing up the Constitution and complaining that the bankers are economically 'beaten up'. The numbers, good for them, tell the exact opposite: 25.5 billion in profits in 2022, 40.6 in 2023, 46.5 in 2024 and 47.5 in 2025. And this year profits of more than 50 billion euros,” said Salvini.

"Meanwhile, between 2022 and 2025, banks closed 2,510 branches and laid off 12,900 employees. Without forgetting that in 2025 their effective tax rate was 19.2%, a tax rate well lower than that of other companies. Gigantic profits that derive above all from the interest and commissions paid by citizens, families and businesses. Ask for a contribution of at least 5 billion euros to one of the richest sectors and protected by Italy will be an intervention of absolute common sense", he added.

Yesterday the number one of the Abi Antonio Patuelli contested the intervention planned by the government. "We move in a constitutional state of law and in the Constitution it is not written that some must be beaten", said Patuelli, recalling how the Constitution provides that "everyone is required to contribute to public expenses based on their ability to pay