Tonight's summit at Palazzo Chigi between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Deputy Prime Ministers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio is called upon to give a definitive answer to the European Commission's requests to avoid the infringement procedure against the Italian budget manoeuvre.
Once the agreement has been reached on the public deficit threshold of 2,04 of GDP, Brussels insists that Italy also correct its structural deficit by cutting another two decimal points, which is equivalent to finding another 3,6 billion in addition to the 6,4 billion already put on the table by Conte in the meeting with the president of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker. It is probable that they will be sought by further restricting the times and methods of early retirement wanted by the League with the introduction of the 100 quota and the basic income supported by the Five Stars, even if the Northern League undersecretary Giancarlo Giorgetti never misses an opportunity to wrinkle his nose at to a measure that smacks of welfare and which risks not working due to the instability of the Employment Centres.
The agreement that the government seeks at tonight's summit will then be translated into the maxi-amendment to the budget maneuver that will be presented to the Senate on Tuesday. The Economy Minister Giovanni Tria hopes to recover resources from the sale of public buildings, on which the CDP could lend a hand with a sort of round game, from other cuts in ministerial expenses and perhaps from restrictive interventions both on the so-called pensions gold and on the indexation of pensions above 1.500 euros per month. It is precisely for this reason that relations between the Lega and Cinque Stelle are heating up and becoming more nervous every day and the tug of war on the eco-tax that the Lega would like to abolish by canceling both the sanctions for the most polluting cars and the bonuses for electric cars and the Five Stars instead keep considering it a measure-symbol
In the race to avoid the rejection of Brussels, the next few hours will be decisive.
