Government: Meloni-Tajani-Salvini summit at the Amigo hotel in Brussels
The Prime Minister, on the sidelines of the EU-Gulf States summit in Brussels, recalled that the government's strategy focuses on 'work, incomes, wages, and the health of citizens, without raising taxes and keeping the accounts in order'.
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Majority summit at the Amigo hotel, a stone's throw from the Grand Place, in Brussels. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, after having dinner with ministers Antonio Tajani and Raffaele Fitto, executive vice-president in pectore of the European Commission, was joined by Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the League. Meloni, Tajani and Salvini met in a reserved room of the hotel, where both Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, among others, are staying. On Thursday morning Tajani will attend the pre-summit of the EPP, of which he is vice-president, while Salvini will be at the pre-summit of the Patriots, the first in the recent history of the European right. The meeting comes just hours after the Council of Ministers gave the green light to the manoeuvre. Meloni, before the European Council, is scheduled to attend a meeting on migration organised by Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands.
The President of the Council is not afraid that the contribution demanded of insurance companies and banks for the manoeuvre will be reflected in higher costs for consumers. "The work we have done has also been done by listening to, and working with, the associations representing these worlds, which I would indeed like to thank because there has certainly been a very constructive dialogue. What we have chosen to go into detail on are certain accounting mechanisms that are particularly favourable. Revising those accounting mechanisms broadens the tax base and thus brings in resources. On the one hand, we wanted to be able to have resources that could be redistributed particularly to families and low incomes, but we did not want to give the signal that the banks are adversaries,' he said in Brussels on the sidelines of the EU-Gulf countries summit. That is why we also worked together with them. Then they rightly wait to see the final text, but there has been an interlocution, a collaboration that I think is a very significant message, a positive message'.
3.5 billion cash advance from banks over two years
The banking sector's contribution to the financial manoeuvre will have an impact of around 3.5 billion over two years, 2025 and 2026, with an average impact of around 1.75 billion for each year. This is the balance reached late yesterday morning between representatives of the credit sector, represented by Abi, and technicians from the Ministry of the Economy
Meloni: we keep accounts in order without raising taxes
"The strategy remains the same. We focus on work, on incomes, on wages, on the health of citizens, without raising taxes and keeping the accounts in order," said Meloni, who recalled that in the manoeuvre ""there are in the three-year period 4 and a half billion for the renewal of contracts in the public service, we hire about 3 thousand people to speed up civil trials.
