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Meloni to Salvini: ‘Let’s avoid clashes with the EU’. Competition bill postponed, but…
Giorgia Meloni wants to “avoid a clash with the European Commission” and “to give Ursula von der Leyen a pretext to brand Italy as “unreliable”, relegating it to the second row in the game for EU nominations”writes Il Messaggero according to which “there was a near-miss” on Monday “over a measure that has the eyes of Europe fixed on it: the annual Competition Bill. On one side, the leader of the League Matteo Salvini, determined to include the reform of road concessions in the bill. On the other, the ministry of Raffaele Fitto, Giorgia Meloni’s trusted minister for EU Affairs, to impose a halt”
The competition bill includes “the reform of motorway concessions, which provides for the stop to automatic renewals and also intervenes on tolls. The objective indicated by Salvini “is to avoid excessive increases and to guarantee that there are maintenance works” – – writes Ansa – We would move towards a single national tariff and a State intervention on extraordinary maintenance. This mechanism would not convince the European Commission, worried about the possible impact on public finances. On this, government sources explain, the confrontation arose in the pre-Cdm: the fear of the objections from Brussels would have pushed the officials of the Ministry of European Affairs to ask for the brakes.
Salvini would have therefore asked for the last minute postponement. “The stalemate could be resolved in the next few days: government sources guarantee that the measure will land back in the Council of Ministers “by the end of the week”, reports Il Messaggero. “But the episode is symptomatic of a double register that coexists in the government in these weeks of great European maneuvers. After the Brothers of Italy’s no to the re-election of Ursula von der Leyen as head of the Commission, Meloni asked her party for a truce in tone and public statements on the EU”.
“In the next few days, negotiations will resume to carve out a place in the sun for Italy in the next Commission and to ensure a weighty economic portfolio for Fitto – Il Messaggero underlines – For this reason, the continuous clash between the two deputy prime ministers, Tajani and Salvini, precisely on European soil, a tit for tat that has been going on for days, has annoyed the commander-in-chief of the centre-right who in recent days has spoken to both of them on the phone and yesterday spoke on the sidelines of the Council of Ministers with the Foreign Minister of Forza Italia”.
On the Competition bill front, its approval is among the objectives required by the PNRR to unlock the seventh installment of the plan by December 31 and bring 18.2 billion euros into the state coffers.
Government: Fitto, Competition Bill? Confident we will find a synthesis
“We have two more Councils of Ministers between now and the summer break, I believe that there could be the possibility of evaluating this important text which needs further study.. I would like to highlight the value of the comparison with the EU, often preventive, to avoid creating problems, let’s proceed with the same method on this too. I am confident that the right balances can be found on all points”. This was stated by the Minister for EU Affairs Raffaele Fitto at the end of the control room that approved the fifth six-monthly report on the PNRR, questioned on the postponement of the arrival of the Competition Bill in the Council of Ministers.
Competition: Urso, no extensions on dehors, structural solution
“We cannot go from extension to extension. In this provision there will be a structural solution that we have agreed with the Municipalities, with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, with the superintendencies”. This was stated by the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso on the sidelines of the presentation of the RigeneRare hub organized by Iren at the Chamber, responding to a question on the Competition Bill and the issue of outdoor seating. “This is not the problem,” the minister replied to those who asked him if an agreement had been reached on the issue of outdoor seating, given the postponement of the Competition Bill, which was expected in the Council of Ministers today.
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