Anarchist protest in Trento during the speech of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the Teatro Sociale as part of the Festival of Economics. The demonstrators moved to a street adjacent to the theater and were controlled remotely by a large deployment of police in riot gear. Long-distance question and answer between Meloni and Schlein. Many ministers also arrived in Trento
Trent – “I don’t need to cash in on the super bonus but to limit the bleeding because our accounts can’t handle it and it doesn’t produce what was promised, in terms of GDP”. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said itguest of the Economics Festival in Trento, explaining that “what we are doing on the superbonus is unpopular for many but when we are traveling at costs of 220 billion euros, like the Pnrr, to renovate 4% of the properties, a tight you have to put in otherwise you risk getting out of control.”
“There is a reason why I fear that in a system like the Italian one the minimum wage does not give the answer we are looking for: we have a very high level of union bargaining,” the prime minister reiterated. “The European Union itself, when it talks about minimum wages, says ‘in systems that are not like the one in Italy’. If I have the law on the minimum hourly wage of 9 euros – she added – that parameter is not additional, it can become a substitute. Most contracts have an hourly wage higher than 9 euros. How many chances are there that there are more workers who see their wages drop than those who would see them increase? With a minimum wage law there is a risk of weakening collective bargaining. You have to be careful. Then, I agree that there is a pocket of poor labor which requires precise intervention.”
Melons and Schlein they spoke from the same stage within a few hours of each other. On the responsibilities that the prime minister places on the opposition: “If the left had done everything right – replied Schlein – I would not have been elected secretary. But I ask her how long she wants to continue to offload her responsibilities onto others.”
On the minimum wage issue: “I want to ask Meloni if he realizes that there are three and a half million poor people who work and that the minimum wage is needed. Contracts with wages below 9 euros per hour are unacceptable.” “The premiership – says Schlein – with the direct election of the Prime Minister undermines the institutional balance and weakens Parliament and therefore democracy”.
