ROME – From the blitz to the acceptance of the postponement. At a later date. The somersault of the majority takes place in the Senatewhere Forza Italia and the League retreat from the abolition of the Profitometer and the “anti-Bolkestein” aid to seaside. The boarding amendments will end up in the bin of the Cohesion decree for examination by the Budget Commission. The government dictates the line: the gamble – this is the reasoning made at Palazzo Chigi and the Treasury – must be shelved in light of the Quirinale’s assessments on the incompatibility, by matter, of the rules with the structure of the measure.
Seaside resorts and farewell to the Redditometer, the majority challenges the Quirinale
by Giuseppe Colombo, Antonio Fraschilla
June 18, 2024
And so the Forza Italia supporters must be satisfied with the commitment that the deputy minister of Economy Maurizio Leo will announce on Thursday, at the end of the Council of Ministers which will give the green light to the legislative decree to correct the biennial preventive agreement. The owner of the tax reform will say that the government is committed to implementing the indications on the Redditometer that Parliament will give when the decree lands in the Chambers to acquire the opinion of the competent commissions.
The decision made in Via XX Settembre was announced the undersecretary of the Economy Federico Freni. When the work of the Budget Commission gets underway in the morning, Freni launches a conciliatory message: “The demands of Forza Italia – he underlines – are widely shared and will be valorised by the government in a forthcoming regulatory provision: Deputy Minister Leo, Minister Giorgetti and all the majority are working to respond in a concrete and operational way to the needs of taxpayers with the seriousness that has always characterized this government”.
In the corridor of the mezzanine floor of Palazzo Madama he passes the Italian senator Dario Damiani: “So good”. My colleague Maurizio Gasparri he is instead sceptical: “This discussion has not yet ended, we also want further confirmation of the desire to resolve the issue.” But behind Freni’s words there is the will of the Mef, which does not change despite the annoyance of the Azzurri.
Also because, Leo thinks, a hasty cancellation of the Redditometer, as requested by the FI amendment, is anything but appropriate. A different structure of the anti-tax evasion tool is being studied, not its abolition. This is where the expedient of the legislative decree comes in handy. It is difficult, if not impossible, for him to arrive in Parliament before the summer break. Just as it is not at all certain that the Azzurri’s indications to relaunch the cancellation of the Redditometer will ultimately be framed as binding conditions.
The Carroccio also goes into reverse. In the morning the group leader Massimiliano Romeo he is still convinced of pushing the amendment on seaside resorts up to the vote in the commission. But the proposal is irritating for the government because it forces Europe’s hand: the amendment, in fact, provides for the validation by Palazzo Chigi of the beach mapping developed by the technical table established at the Presidency of the Council.
The mirage of free beaches: increasingly limited numbers, in the jungle of the high cost of sunbeds
by Federica Angeli and Giulia D’Aleo
June 10, 2024
With this document we want to demonstrate that beaches are not a scarce good and therefore no application of the Bolkestein directive for the tendering of concessions.
After an afternoon of phone calls, the decision was made to transform the amendment into an agenda. “After the extensive reassurances received from Palazzo Chigi to address the topic in one of the next Council of Ministers – states Romeo – we have decided to transform the amendment on the seaside resorts into an agenda to commit the government to adopting a mapping, defining a process of reorganization of the sector, guaranteeing an economic return and protecting business activities, also through the recognition of compensation based on the company value and a pre-emption system”. When will we see.
