Giorgetti: 'It will be a balanced manoeuvre. On excise duties, hallucinating debate'

The manoeuvre? 'It will be balanced, beyond the abstruse polemics of the political debate,' said Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti in front of the audience of Fratelli d'Italia gathered at the Principe di Savoia in Milan to illustrate how to make Italy grow together. 'The contents are clear: confirm the cut in the tax and contribution wedge, which we will make structural, with the average saving of 100 euro for those who declare up to 35 thousand euro. We will certainly continue with the family policy, the demographic winter is the problem of problems. However, we will also make significant cuts, we will ask for sacrifices from ministries and public bodies, if no one is offended,' the minister added, smiling. 'Individuals and businesses, however, have nothing to fear, it will be a balanced and fair manoeuvre.

Reviewing the two years in the engine room of the country's economy and finance, Giorgetti said that he 'found in 2022 a country with enormous potential but back from the Covid and post-Covid that had led to exceptional anomalous situations, a period drugged by exceptional measures and peculiar situations, from the superbonus to the citizenship income, with the inevitable disaster of public finance. Deficit debt-GDP was at 8 %, today at 3.8, this says that the path to recovery is well on track'. The 'mythical' spread," the MefMinister jokes, "a symptom of credibility has fallen by 100 points, the budget is getting rid of the ugliest ballast, that of interest expenditure. Above all, the minister is keen to emphasise, 'we have shown that the arrival of 'these' in government has not caused a disaster but, on the contrary, has increased Italy's international credibility, which has greatly increased'.

the head of the Mef adds that he is 'struggling to follow hallucinating debates. We wrote that we will align the excise duties on diesel and petrol, because for the EU this is an environmentally harmful subsidy. We wrote 'we will align'. so those on petrol will go down and those on diesel will go up, but in imperceptible ways. The hauliers have nothing to do with it, they have been huffing and puffing, but they have an ad hoc discipline and subsidy'.

As for the future of the government's course, Giorgetti points to the goal of 'sailing in safe waters by strengthening credibility. Our approach from the outset has been one of prudence, which is why we always do much better than announcements. It will happen this time as well, we have the lowest unemployment for 30 years, the lowest inflation in Europe, growth that is not fantastic but is much better than Germany which has been in recession for two years, So on this path we will ground what we started. The forces of the country's economy need to be freed from an asphyxiating burden, the tax reform that we are putting on the ground with Deputy Minister Leo is crucial."