This morning the control room between Draghi and the heads of delegation of the government majority on measures against higher bill prices and on refreshments for activities affected by anti Covid restrictions.
The Cdm will follow.
Addressing the most urgent dossiers, from refreshments for activities in crisis due to anti-Covid restrictions to the new shield against expensive bills. Evaluate the effects of the latest measures to contain the virus, starting with the school situation. While the parties are looking for - and for now do not find - an agreement on the new president of the Republic, Mario Draghi does not stop the government's activity, he calls the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi at Palazzo Chigi to discuss measures to calm the increases in energy prices , sees Minister Bianchi, prepares the control room that will precede the Council of Ministers this morning for the launch of the new package which is worth a total of around 6 billion.
The new interventions to stem the increases in electricity and gas are the most complex to prepare: the technicians work all day to fine-tune the rules but, except for recent news, a constitutionality-proof solution is not yet found for ask for a contribution from the energy companies that have collected extra profits in this period, as repeatedly wished by Draghi himself. There will, however, be the renewal of the auction mechanism for CO2 emissions - to be used to reduce price increases rather than public debt - and also the cut through the securitization of part of the system charges. This would amount to approximately 4 billion (1.5 from Ets auctions and 2.5 from securitisations) which are added to the 3.8 already allocated to meet the super-increases in electricity and gas in the first quarter.
If the measures of the maneuver looked above all to families, this time the intervention should also give a hand to businesses - and local authorities - which in turn are struggling with extra-large bills. The industrialists say they are satisfied, after the meeting with Draghi at Palazzo Chigi that they had asked for in recent days. The premier listens to Bonomi's requests and explains the lines of action, guaranteeing attention to the industry which has restarted with momentum after the pandemic has stopped and is now in danger of stopping precisely because of the expensive energy. A topic on which all the parties have been pressing for weeks: Matteo Salvini not a day goes by without listing in detail the difficulties of a specific sector (today it was the turn of the companies of Abruzzo and Molise, with "quadrupled" bills and "thousands of jobs at risk "). But also Enrico Letta asked for" a more structural and less one-off intervention to prevent businesses from closing. "The majority would have liked more, putting their hand to the deficit with a new budget variance, but the election of the Head of State in 4 days has forced us to move in the meantime with what has been recovered between new measures and the folds of the budget. Anti-Covid resources, just over a billion that will go to discos, sports facilities, the world entertainment and culture, in addition to tourism, are recovered from funds already available to ministries that will be redirected to activities in crisis (among the measures, 200 million will go to those most impacted by Covid, while 160 million will go to textiles). We'll see,once you understand who will be the new tenant of the Colle and the fate of the government. In the meantime, Draghi - who should keep the line of silence and not hold a press conference after the CDM - is proceeding with an agenda full of meetings, among which, just before lunchtime, the one with the president of Stellantis, John Elkann, stands out. A meeting held very confidential and of which no details emerge. But that comes after the words of the ad Tavares on the costs of Italian factories and the absence of adequate incentives for the transition to the electric car.John Elkann. A meeting held very confidential and of which no details emerge. But that comes after the words of the ad Tavares on the costs of Italian factories and the absence of adequate incentives for the transition to the electric car.John Elkann. A meeting held very confidential and of which no details emerge. But that comes after the words of the ad Tavares on the costs of Italian factories and the absence of adequate incentives for the transition to the electric car.
