Regarding the roadblocks of hauliers in the South, "the Ministry of the Interior reports that identification is being carried out, also with a view to removing the barriers. Preventing the passage of only trucks, allowing cars to pass, still constitutes a roadblock, with penal consequences including prison terms. It is important, I believe it is significant and emblematic, that the hauliers' associations themselves are asking us, asking the Ministry of the Interior, to have the blocks removed". The Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, said this at question time in the Chamber.
Meanwhile, the government releases 480 million euros for road transport and announces over 150 million in new resources, but the truckers' protest does not stop.
"The hauliers' dispute requires immediate responses. Production activity is paralysed, due to lack of supplies. The blockade must end, otherwise the damage to consumers and businesses, already significant, will become unsustainable". Thus, in a note, the industrial union of Naples, of the other four provinces of Campania and of Confindustria Bari and Barletta-Andria-Trani.
Supermarket shelves still remain empty, especially in the provinces of Caserta and Naples, but also in Molise and Lazio, where fruit and vegetables are especially scarce.
Avoid any form of speculation on the prices of basic necessities, in particular on food and fuel. This is the objective of the task force established, at the urging of the Prefecture of Crotone, among the police forces and coordinated in the area by the police commissioner, Renato Panvino as provincial public safety authority. The initiative aims to constantly monitor retail costs to avoid reckless increases in a time of serious emergency for supplies.
They will still be able to resist until the end of the week, thanks to the stored goods, but the danger that the large-scale retail trade platforms in the Bari area will remain completely empty, and consequently the supermarket shelves, is real. In recent days, in Puglia - except for the most critical case in Foggiano - supermarkets have been guaranteed supplies, albeit with some necessary adjustments.
"The same media strategy used to cover crimes in Palestine (denies and deflects) is used to obscure the sins of rulers who have stolen the future of millions of Italians. In the face of protests full of pain, there is talk of broken windows, and even more repression is done." The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese wrote it on social media.
"The result of the meeting just concluded in the Campania Region with the president Roberto Fico and the councilor Maria Carmela Serluca is an allocation of 20 million euros as the first starting point for the expensive diesel fuel of Campania farmers". Roberto Mazzei, director of Coldiretti Campania, says so.
Free bags of salad in Battipaglia (Salerno), a city in the Piana del Sele, kingdom of fourth range. Owners and employees of an agricultural company gave them to motorists passing through the large roundabout exiting the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway. "We won't sell it anyway - says one of them - we'll join the protest, we can't take it anymore".
A demonstration in front of the headquarters of the Veneto Region in Venice was organized by the regional Coldiretti to protect the income of agricultural entrepreneurs. Agricultural and fishing entrepreneurs from the seven provinces will meet to ask the Region for extraordinary interventions to support agricultural businesses, crushed by the increase in production costs.
Steel and bitumen not arriving, materials of petroleum origin increasingly difficult to find, companies forced to seek supplies abroad incurring further costs. The protest by Calabrian hauliers also affects the construction sector and Ance Calabria launches an appeal to the Government and asks it to evaluate extraordinary measures to support companies and protect employment.
The other day "I visited some shops that were attacked, the problem is not just that of material damage, I also have to think about the employees who are perhaps kids of more or less the same age as those who create disturbances and are scared". The mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala explained this at the end of the summit in the prefecture after the vandalism last weekend.
