Inflation doesn’t just hit the supermarket or the gas station. Even in the bank are pains. The ECB’s move towards a decidedly tighter monetary policy is being reflected in the savings of Italians allocated to institutions and also in loans granted to families and businesses to buy a home. Premise, in September 2022, loans to […]
Tag: Taxi
“Rome is a jungle”. Taxi drivers’ fury against Gualtieri: all roads need to be redone
Third row cars, narrow aisles, uncontrolled unloading of goods, scooters. So working on the streets of the capital became a nightmare Traffic in Rome drives everyone crazy. Especially those who have to work on it every day in traffic. Cars parked in triple rows, increasingly narrow lanes occupied by dead-end cycle paths, unloading of “wild” […]
The Air that Pulls, “the day of the crisis…”. The story of Maurizio Gasparri on the advice of Mario Draghi
What will the right about beach resorts and taxi drivers do if it goes to the government? The question is addressed to Maurizio Gasparri, senator of Forza Italia, by Francesco Magnani, presenter of the September 2 edition of L’Aria che Tira, the morning talk show of La7. When answering, Gasparri reveals what he said to […]
Competition Bill, Taxis Rejoice: Article 10 removed. Gongola Fratelli d’Italia
Taxi drivers can rejoice after the protests held at Palazzo Chigi in recent days. The competition bill goes to court on Monday, the 25th, without article 10, the one referring to white cars, from which the government announced the withdrawal. That wish arose from the leader of the group in the Chamber that was staged […]
Ddl Competition, Gianluigi Comparison from the side of taxi drivers: “So Draghi sells our economy”
They repeatedly asked to be received and heard, they asked for a confrontation with the government. The response was first indifference, then a controversial “secret” meeting between Mario Draghi and Uber’s CEO shortly before the competition bill reached court. A moral slap, and not only, to the category of taxi drivers, which the prime minister […]
Taxi strike Roma, taxi drivers break the security cordon: war in the Draghi house
It has been more than a year since the center of Rome has experienced social tensions of such magnitude, since restaurateurs against the closure due to covid in April 2021 exploded into a true urban war with clashes with difficulty sedated by the forces of order . But stopping at Piazza San Silvestro, just over […]
Rome Taxi Strike, Government Opens: We Discuss the Competition Bill. But the protest continues
Palazzo Chigi has no intention of continuing the tug of war with the taxi drivers, this is not the time (“… the fibrillations are already too many”). But the proposed changes to article 10, the hotspot and the most controversial of the Dl Competition, do not satisfy the drivers of white cars, who left yesterday […]
Ddl Competition, taxis don’t give in to Mario Draghi. Rome blocked
Nothing really, yet. Anyone who hoped that yesterday’s second meeting between Teresa Bellanova and the 27 taxi unions would have led to a resolute agreement will have to put their souls in peace. The meeting table with the deputy minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility lasted indefinitely for more than three hours, and then gave […]
Confrontation in the competition bill, Rixi: there are laws on taxis, they should only be enforced
«I wrote Law 12 of 2019 when I was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. I urgently sent it to a council of ministers to overcome the anarchy that existed before”: so Edoardo Rixi, deputy for the League and former deputy minister of transport, told Il Tempo, explaining that a solution to the ongoing fight […]
Mortgages soar above 3% and house becomes a mirage for young people
Low mortgages will likely remain in memory. The long-term fixed rate portion has already exceeded 3%. This is to blame for June’s financial strains in the eurozone, which have doubled rates from just two months ago, and risk pushing the younger and more precarious home loans, which the Draghi government has tried to favor, out […]