The new text of the Bill Decree could go to the Council of Ministers on Monday 9th, based on what ANSA has learned from government sources. The postponement from today's Council of Ministers occurred, as mentioned, due to doubts from the State Accounting Office regarding part of the measure. The new text of the Bill Decree was however illustrated and established today by the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin. The text of the provision for the Mase is definitive.
Before today's postponement, the provision should have been examined already on 28 October, during the Council of Ministers which approved the 2027 budget bill. Initially included on the agenda, it was subsequently withdrawn to allow for further in-depth analysis. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni explained the reasons for the postponement, ruling out financial difficulties or conflicts with Brussels. "On the bill decree there are no problems with coverage or with the Commission, but some technical checks. Also due to the quantity of measures" being examined by the government "we decided to postpone it to the next Council of Ministers", the prime minister had specified.
The issue concerns above all the functioning of the mechanism intended to contain the price of gas used to produce electricity and the distribution of the related costs. Last Tuesday, on the sidelines of the inauguration of Ecomondo 2026 in Rimini, Pichetto Fratin confirmed that "my offices are redefining the technical methods of the so-called tipping", referring to the system with which to share the costs of the intervention.
The government also decided today to challenge the end-of-life law in Veneto, the first region administered by the centre-right (the governor is the Northern League member Alberto Stefani) to give the green light to "procedures and times for regional healthcare assistance for medically assisted suicide". This was decided by the Council of Ministers. The deputy prime minister and leader of the League Matteo Salvini, as far as we know, did not participate in either the discussion or the vote. The Minister for Regional Affairs Roberto Calderoli, also a member of the Northern League, instead spoke out against the appeal, arguing that it is a regulatory law that only indicates the guidelines in accordance with the rules already in force.
"I fully respect the decision taken today by the Council of Ministers to challenge the Venetian law on the end of life. It is a constitutional prerogative of the Government, which has the right to turn to the Consulta when it believes that a regional law presents aspects of unconstitutionality. Just as it is fully legitimate that the representatives of the League in the Council of Ministers did not participate in the vote. Personally, I firmly support the choice made by the Veneto Regional Council, which I personally supported and voted for", stated the president of the Veneto Regional Council Luca Zaia.
The regional law of 8 September 2026, n. 17, on the procedures for healthcare assistance for medically assisted suicide, was approved by the Venetian Legislative Assembly last 2 September. For Zaia "the appeal will represent a further opportunity for legal in-depth analysis. The Constitutional Court has already expressed its opinion on the regulations of Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and Sardinia, also clarifying the spaces within which the Regions can intervene. Now it will also have the opportunity to express its opinion on the Venetian law. We await this judgment with serenity, convinced of the seriousness of the work carried out and of the desire to fully respect the constitutional framework. But I believe that the real problem is another, and which cannot be attributed to this Government or to a single political majority: for too many years Italy has been dragging a legislative void on the end of life that no Parliament has yet managed to fill".
