Manoeuvre, tension in the majority on taxes. Tajani's warning to Giorgetti

No new tax, which would find Forza Italia, which had already lashed out against the levy on extra-profits last year, 'vehemently opposed'. Clarifications and denials are not enough to reassure the majority parties, after the Bloomberg interview of the minister Giancarlo Giorgetti who certainly, says Antonio Tajani , will have been "misinterpreted". When in doubt, however, it is better to reiterate that the manoeuvre 'will not be tears and blood'. Even if 'prudence' is a must, amidst an increasingly incandescent international scenario and margins that are already slim.

Between now and mid-October, however, one must also be cautious in the choice of words, the message that Giorgia Meloni would send to her allies (and her ministers). We must work to give 'concrete' answers, avoiding offering the side to the oppositions that have been hammering for two days on excise taxes as well as on the 'sacrifices' evoked by the Minister of the Economy which, they say in the centre-right, is a word that 'is not part of our dictionary'. "We want to lower taxes to incomes below 35,000 euro and make those who, like insurance companies and banks, have earned billions pay," League leader Matteo Salvini tries to explain, not deviating too much, in substance, from the concept expressed by Giorgetti. Even for the Azzurri, he had made a "more articulated and complex reasoning: when you put your hand to the budget law," notes Fi spokesman Raffaele Nevi, "everyone is asking for more resources, the sacrifices to which the minister was referring are referred to the many no's that we will be forced to say to those who ask for more resources.

Although it is clear to everyone that resources are limited, the list of requests that are gradually piling up at Palazzo Chigi and the Mef from all the ministries continues to grow. Many, even 'legitimate' ones, will remain unfulfilled, as both Meloni and Giorgetti reiterated just two days ago in the Council of Ministers.

The minister has a meeting on his agenda with the president of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini. And at the beginning of next week he will be called, in Parliament, to illustrate the Budgetary Structural Plan that the Chambers will vote on, with a resolution, on Tuesday itself, immediately after his hearing. Then there will be to prepare the table with the manoeuvre's scaffolding, the Draft Budgetary Plan that is to be sent to Brussels by mid-October also according to the new Pact rules. And to translate with the details of the regulations the intentions expressed in the Psb that focus precisely on a few priorities, the wedge and Irpef, the family, and health. Delicate steps, on which Meloni could make a point with the other coalition leaders at the beginning of next week.

A meeting that would come after weeks of tensions in the majority that have materialised not only in the skirmishes between the League and Fi on the Ius Scholae, Autonomy or the vote in Austria, but also in the Senate, where the examination of the Omnibus decree has been more troubled than expected. An appetiser, is a widespread fear, of what could happen with the budget law, when funds will not allow the parties' appetites to be satisfied. Another test will already present itself with the infractions decree, which contains the agreement on bathing establishments reached in extremis with Brussels, one step away from referral to the European Court of Justice. An almost ironclad agreement, on paper. Even if there could still be some margin to meet the demands of the sector (and of the majority), especially on the chapter of the indemnifications, an issue on which some amendments of FdI, Lega and FI are concentrated, with proposals more favourable to the outgoing concessionaires.