Manoeuvre, government's 3.5 billion package expected today Strait Bridge, resources rescheduled for 2026

The calendar promises sittings, even in the evenings, until Saturday. Almost everyone is betting on the text's arrival in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday 22 December, while in the House the green light is now expected between Christmas and the New Year.

Senate House sitting postponed to Tuesday

Since the work of the Budget Committee on the Budget Bill has not been concluded, the Senate Chamber's sitting has been postponed to Tuesday 16 December, late in the morning. This was reported by the Speaker of the House, Licia Ronzulli. The agenda also includes tomorrow's communications from the president and the budget bill. The sitting, said Ronzulli, will be suspended for the meeting of the Conference of Group Leaders scheduled for 12 noon. The group leaders will have to define the new timetable for examining the budget bill. On Monday, it has also been announced that the Economy Bill (with advance measures) approved by the Chamber will be presented in Palazzo Madama.

In the meantime, a government amendment to the manoeuvre on ZES and Transition 5.0 is on the way, which could lengthen the discussion in the Senate Budget Committee. Giorgetti said this on the sidelines of the work on the budget in Palazzo Madama. "A government amendment will arrive in the afternoon, which, since it is important, will inevitably take a little extra time," explained the Mef titular, pointing out that the executive's proposed amendment comes from the fact that "we have had significant questions, beyond the forecasts, on the Zes and on Transition 5.0 that we believe we must at least reasonably cover."

In the manoeuvre 'there will be a reprogramming' of the bridge resources. This was said by Guido Quintino Liris (FdI), asked by reporters on the sidelines of the Budget Committee of Palazzo Madama. 'There is a delay in these proceedings,' Liris, one of the Budget law's rapporteurs, explained to reporters, 'due to the fact that some situations will have to see reprogramming due to the fact that for a year it has not been possible to speak for obvious reasons related to the judicial sphere. So there will be reprogramming of the Bridge resources? "Yes, from next year. A note from the MIT clarified that "the government has guaranteed financial coverage for the work: due to the intervention of the Court of Auditors, the further in-depth investigations requested are underway and this is why the funds have been reallocated so that the construction sites will be opened in the coming months rather than by the end of the year as hoped. "There is no defunding of the bridge over the Strait of Messina, as the Ministry of Infrastructure has confirmed. This is a due adjustment and temporal alignment of the financial coverage to the new construction schedule, resulting from the failure of the Court of Auditors to register the Cipess resolution approving the final project," said Stretto di Messina CEO Pietro Ciucci.

TheGold affair of the Bank of Italy now appears to be closed. The latest rewording brought by the Treasury on Monday evening traces what Economics Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti wrote to Christine Lagarde: 'The availability and management of the gold reserves of the Italian people are in the hands of the Bank of Italy in accordance with the rules of the Treaties. "We are fine. In the reformulation that I have presented on behalf of the government, we believe that the issue can be considered closed," Giorgetti said as he left the Senate budget committee bureau on the issue of the Malan amendment on Bankitalia's gold resources to the budget bill. Giorgetti reported that he 'rightly wanted to clarify the gold affair to Parliament, because they only read in your newspapers how it went, so perhaps saying the affair in the first person seemed correct to me

"Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 123, 127 and 130 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the second paragraph of Article 4 of the Consolidated Text of the legal provisions on currency matters, referred to in Presidential Decree No. 148 of 31 March 1988, is to be interpreted in the sense that the gold reserves managed and held by the Bank of Italy, as entered in its balance sheet, belong to the Italian people". This is the text of the reworded amendment on the Bank of Italy's gold read out by the Minister of the Economy to the Senate Budget Committee during the bureau meeting.

There are a dozen parliamentary proposals reformulated by a new omnibus amendment prepared by the government to the budget bill being examined by the Senate Budget Committee. They include: measures on the subject of administrative justice; a new 'national totalisator numerical game called 'Win For Italia Team'', of which the revenue share of the collection will go to the financing of Coni for the financing of the Italia Team's Olympic projects; 114 million for the security of the Milan Cortina Olympics and a financing of 20 million a year from 2026 to a fund relating to supplementary measures for complementary pension forms for the Armed Forces, Police Forces and Fire Brigades; the possibility for the National Commission for the Right of Asylum and the Territorial Commissions for the Recognition of International Protection to make use of temporary workers in 2026; the transfer to the State of the Pietralata area, owned by Istat; measures to support the families of the victims of fatal accidents at work.

New resources, amounting to 30 million for 2026 and 27 million from 2027, for the support fund for the families of victims of serious accidents at work. This is what is envisaged in the latest package of reformulations to parliamentary amendments to the manoeuvre that arrived in the Senate Budget Committee. The new resources serve to 'redetermine the amounts' of the one-off payment to the surviving families of workers who have died as a result of an accident at work. "In the period under consideration, a number of events equal to 1,000 cases per year has been cautiously assumed for a surviving family composition unchanged in the year of reference," explains the technical report, which specifies that "the planned expenditure for the payment of compensation is equal to €40,969,200 per year". The resources are drawn from the Fund to meet non-deferrable needs.

A million in 2026 for the realisation of the programme of interventions of Matera 'Mediterranean Capital of Culture and Dialogue 2026' and 5 million in 2028 in favour of Milan's La Scala theatre to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its foundation. These are two measures contained in the new package of reformulations of parliamentary amendments to the manoeuvre

The Sicilian regional government will receive €106.5 million over the three-year period 2026-2028 in implementation of the agreement between the state and the special-status regions, which was implemented by a government amendment to the financial manoeuvre. The agreement is the result of a direct negotiation conducted by President Renato Schifani, together with the other governors, with the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Rome, aimed at compensating for the lower regional revenues resulting from the Irpef reform. In detail, Sicily is allocated 43.5 million euros for 2026, 42.2 million for 2027 and 20.8 million for 2028. The resources will be available after the approval of the budget law by the State.