“Italy at Risk”. Government prevaricates on expensive energy, but announces: “No to budget deficit”

Italians and political parties await the Draghi government’s next moves to deal with the high price of energy. Laura Castelli, deputy economy minister and candidate for civic commitment in the upcoming elections, Mattino, 24, on Rádio 24 ruled out that a budget variation could be implemented and further indebted: “The deadline for paying extra profits for companies that have this task is October. Measures are being considered, if necessary, to obtain additional resources. But there are always two fronts. We are certainly not talking about budget variation, I mean clearly, it would put the country even more at risk and we believe that this should be done with these two paths: higher revenue thanks to the fact of a year of growth and a higher revenue was planned. if necessary with other tools”.

“We can – Castelli continues – talk about aid, but the truth is that if it is not structured very strongly, as we are doing the long-term solution, we cannot think of spending the end of 2022 and the entire year of 2023 to provide resources In other words, definitive solutions must be found and these only come from the biggest battles. We have measures valid until the end of September, but the increases force us to think not only about prolonging them, but also increasing them”.

“The path that has been taken – continued the Vice-Minister – in large energy-intensive companies, therefore in the heaviest support, in large energy consumers, is correct. I have always talked about production matrices, these should be much more encouraged and helped, as they protect the production chain and also prevent the occurrence of unemployment, loss of jobs. So we’re working on a lot of things. We are lucky, I dare say, to have set an entire 2022 in growth, so much so that here we also reached the European record, so the resources for the State come in. I think in a few weeks we will be able to intervene again with some help.”