Rome, Aug. 26 (LaPresse) – “According to CNA, over the past six months Italy’s energy bill has exceeded 12 billion euros. And according to calculations by Confesercenti, the rise in fuel prices has added 1.8 billion euros to Italians’ holiday costs. Faced with such a burden, at today’s Council of Ministers meeting the government is extending yet again for a handful of days another barely noticeable ‘little discount’, which has already been swallowed up by fuel prices that have reached absurd peaks. Another mockery, another demonstration of timidity. What this government needs is courage, the same courage it lacked in the last budget law when it called an increase in diesel excise duties an ‘alignment’.” M5S leader Giuseppe Conte wrote this on social media. “What it does not lack, however, is the brass neck to celebrate its own longevity. You can certainly celebrate longevity, but if you have worked to improve Italians’ living conditions, if you have kept the promises made to voters to get yourself sent to Chigi. But if there has not been a shred of reform in four years, what is there to celebrate? As if by magic, courage returns only when it comes to money for weapons: it took them no time at all to ask the EU for almost 9 billion euros in a SAFE loan, without too many qualms and in disregard of the real needs of families and businesses,” he added.
Fuel, Conte: “Government extends barely noticeable discount but 9 billion from SAFE for weapons”
Rome, Aug. 26 (LaPresse) – “According to CNA, over the past six months Italy’s energy bill has exceeded 12 billion euros. And according to calculations by Confesercenti, the rise in fuel prices has added 1.8 billion euros to Italians’ holiday costs. Faced with such a burden, at today’s Council of Ministers meeting the government is extending yet again for a handful of days another barely noticeable ‘little discount’, which has already been swallowed up by fuel prices that have reached absurd peaks. Another mockery, another demonstration of timidity. What this government needs is courage, the same courage it lacked in the last budget law when it called an increase in diesel excise duties an ‘alignment’.” M5S leader Giuseppe Conte wrote this on social media. “What it does not lack, however, is the brass neck to celebrate its own longevity. You can certainly celebrate longevity, but if you have worked to improve Italians’ living conditions, if you have kept the promises made to voters to get yourself sent to Chigi. But if there has not been a shred of reform in four years, what is there to celebrate? As if by magic, courage returns only when it comes to money for weapons: it took them no time at all to ask the EU for almost 9 billion euros in a SAFE loan, without too many qualms and in disregard of the real needs of families and businesses,” he added.