And ten. With the new development decree that the Government is preparing, and which should be ready and presented in about ten days, there will be no less than 10 economic-financial measures adopted in these 40 months of the legislature. On average one every 4 months, which says a lot about the crisis we are going through, but also about the difficulty of the Executive in launching incisive, stabilizing and recovery measures.
In particular, the two financial laws for 2009 and 2010 and the stability law for 2011 were joined by 6 decree-laws aimed at anticipating the effects of the manoeuvres. In total, therefore, as of 15 September 2011, there are 9 legislative acts, which have been accompanied by other measures to deal with the global economic and financial crisis.
Let's see them in detail.
To the laws 203/2008 (the Budget law for 2009), to that 191/2009 (Budget law for 2010) and the 220/2010 (stability law for the current year), 6 decrees have been added:
• 25 June 2008, no. 112: urgent provisions for economic development, simplification, competitiveness, stabilization of public finance and tax equalization;
• 1 July 2009, no. 78: anti-crisis provisions, as well as extension of deadlines;
• 31 May 2010, no. 78: urgent measures regarding financial stabilization and economic competitiveness;
• 13 May 2011, no. 70: European Semester - First urgent provisions for the economy;
• 6 July 2011, no. 98: urgent provisions for financial stabilization;
• 13 of 2011 August 138: further urgent measures for financial stabilization and development.
For the launch of the measures, the Government has not spared recourse to trust: 7 times out of 9 measures. The 2 finance laws both pass through three parliamentary readings and the Government places its trust in Article 2 of Law 191/2009 which, with its 253 paragraphs, represents the heart of the provision.
The stability law for 2011 is approved through a single reading of each branch of Parliament. Of the 6 emergency measures, only the decree-law 112/2008 passes through three parliamentary readings and in all the readings of the 6 decree-laws the question of trust is raised. The penultimate decree, that of last July, was converted in record time in just 9 days (from 6 July, the date of its presentation to the Senate and publication in the "Official Gazette", to 14 July, when it was definitively approved by the Room).
It should be added, to complete the picture, that tomorrow the Chambers will be called to approve the update note to the economic and financial document. And in the resolution that will be presented in the courtroom for approval, it will be noted that in the meantime there have been two corrective maneuvers which have made it necessary to update the Def. And the imminent next decree for development will be the tenth intervention.
