Giorgia Meloni Claims the Extra Profits Tax: I Decided for the Banks

Giorgia Meloni complains about the measure that foresees a tax on the extra profits of the banks: “Of course I would do it again”, she says in an interview with Corriere della Sera, Stampa e Repubblica on Monday, August 14, “it is an initiative that I wanted to because I believe it sends a message about the idea of ​​a fair state, which does the things that must be done without punitive times. I have the utmost respect for the banking system and I have no intention of hitting the banks. But there was a situation of imbalance. With the consistent and prolonged increase in rates by the ECB, it risks penalizing families and companies”.

Prime Minister Giorgia also responds to criticism of having implemented a ‘socialist measure’: “Those who talk about socialism have a distorted conception of the free market. I don’t remember socialists taxing banks, only socialists giving public money to banks”. Tajani said ‘never again such a blitz in the Council of Ministers’. Is there not also a problem of method? “Certainly there may be a question of method. It is easier to intervene to such an extent if the news does not spread too widely, so I take political responsibility. All parties are always extremely involved, this is a very private and sensitive matter on which I assumed the responsibility of intervening. I talked about it with Antonio”, explains the chancellor, Meloni. Did Giorgetti go through a decision that you didn’t share? “Giorgetti was fully involved because he was the minister who wrote the disposition. In this case I didn’t have the meetings that I usually have, but there was a timing problem in relation to a disposition that we decided to bring to the last CDM, otherwise it would be postponed in September” . Did the pact with Salvini prevail over the banks? “It is an initiative that I took. Period”, reiterates the premier.

In the long interview, Meloni returns to respond to the controversy over the findings of the flood in Emilia-Romagna (“It seems to me that Bonaccini is very nervous and I don’t think it’s about the issue of reconstruction, but about the choices we are making). about the commissioner”), government reshuffle rumors (“They’re all imaginative reconstructions from gossip magazines. I never thought about government reshuffle”), and the minimum wage: “I don’t drop the ball. Cnel 60 days before the budget law to make a global proposal to combat precarious work, which perhaps for some categories could also include the issue of the minimum wage”.