"If we go to early elections without making progress on the reforms, it would be very damaging," Economy Minister Fabrizio Saccomanni said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on the US newspaper's website.
Speaking of the subsequent Italian semester of EU Presidency, Saccomanni affirmed that "if this government lasts until the end of the EU Presidency, it will be able to complete all the reforms that have been planned". The term of the presidency is at the end of 2014.
Meanwhile, today Saccomanni made known on the ministry's website the 9 proposals for reform of the IMU on which he is discussing. A "clarification of the concrete implications of the various proposals is needed, in the awareness that political choices must be based on adequate technical insights", notes the minister.
The document offers assessments on a range of intervention hypotheses: it does not claim to be exhaustive, but tries to take into account what has emerged in recent months, in the political debate, in academic interventions, in parliamentary hearings, in the reports of international organizations .
“I express the hope – added Saccomanni – that this work can respond to the objective that I set for myself when I started it: to offer a contribution to the ongoing debate, to clarify the concrete implications of the various proposals, in the awareness that the choices policies must be based on adequate technical insights”:
