
Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani declared that the contribution to the financial maneuver must involve the entire financial sector, including Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, reiterating his no to taxes on extra profits and hoping for European flexibility.
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The Italian government is defining the measures for the financial maneuver and the sharing of the burdens between the different economic sectors.
The contribution to the maneuver must come from the entire financial world, therefore not just banks and insurance companies: "Cassa Depositi e Prestiti must also be involved". The deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani (FI), said this on the sidelines of the "Welfare, Italy" Forum in Rome without specifying how the overall burden of 5 billion indicated by the government will be distributed within the sector. "It's being worked on." Tajani once again reiterated his no to a tax on extra profits, "which do not exist", and "a punitive vision of the banking system and the insurance system".
The Force leader therefore also indicated among the measures "a sort of energy release intended for the greatest possible number of small and medium-sized enterprises", together with aid "for large families". For Tajani, the "surge in the cost of energy products", caused by the "two wars", "does not depend on government action" and "is a global situation": for this reason "we need to intervene in an extraordinary way, just as Europe intervened with flexibility". "We are waiting for European flexibility," he added. Regarding the high cost of fuel and the road transport protest, the FI leader hoped that from today's meeting between Minister Matteo Salvini and the sector "solutions" will arrive to supply shops and supermarkets, "starting with medicines, especially life-saving ones".
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Meeting between Minister Salvini and the road haulage sector to define solutions
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