The CDM launches the Ischia decree, another 10 million arrive

The CDM launches the Ischia decree, another 10 million arrive

A little less than a week after the tragedy that struck Ischia, the council of ministers approves a new decree with which it allocates further measures - which are added to the 2 billion put in place immediately after the flood - to deal with the emergency that brought the island to its knees.

Palazzo Chigi allocates an additional 10 million and blocks tax payments, tax bills and contributions and deadlines for the citizens of Casamicciola and Lacco Ameno until June 2023. The procedural deadlines are also suspended until the end of the year, postponed until later on 31 December the hearings of the pending civil and criminal proceedings.

Finally, the deadline for dismantling the branch courts has been postponed to the end of next year.

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island there are over a thousand buildings affected by landslides, with about fifty uninhabitable buildings and as many at risk.

An extreme situation that was analyzed this morning by the Minister for Civil Protection, Nello Musumeci, in his urgent report to Parliament.

In his speech, the former Sicilian governor could not help but touch on the issue of illegal building, "a theme - he said - that can no longer be avoided".

And precisely on this the leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, has returned to accuse the 5 Star Movement for having introduced an alleged amnesty in the Genoa decree of 2018. "It was a law that put a city on its knees back on its feet", the reply of the 'then Minister of Infrastructure, Danilo Toninelli,

who - on Grillo's blog - defines the amnesty included in the provision as "elusive".

Controversy aside, the government's commitment to stem the emergency in Ischia is taking center stage these days.

In addition to the provision signed tonight, Palazzo Chigi has set up an interministerial control room - which reports to Musumeci - and has also indicated a new emergency commissioner, Giovanni Legnini, who already holds the same position for the earthquake that hit Ischia in 2017. In front of the Chambers, Minister Musumeci took stock of what happened, rattling off the numbers of the tragedy, from the buildings affected to the three hundred displaced people.

But he also spoke about the theme that more than any other is at the center of his agenda as minister, that of prevention.

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The forecasting tool that says which territory is most vulnerable and which risk could arise is called the national plan for adaptation to climate change - in his words -.

It was launched in 2016 at the Ministry of the Environment but since then the authorization commission has not given its final opinion.

The paradox is that when the plan is launched it will in fact already be outdated". The minister asked for a "regulatory simplification", but also a "single central knowledge center for the coordination and monitoring of interventions". , behind which - as Musumeci himself recalled - organized crime is often hidden, the idea of ​​the government would be to entrust the prefects, or military engineers, with the

demolition of illegal constructions, thus 'relieving' the mayors of this responsibility.

The Green-Left Alliance is asking for a "total change of gear" which has asked for an "assumption of responsibility" for politics for choices "to plunder the territory" in a "country like ours which rests on feet of clay".

Means, materials and military equipment will be supplied to Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion, even throughout 2023. After the go-ahead from the Chamber, the Council of Ministers approved the so-called NATO decree, to extend "until December 31 2023" and "subject to the address of the Chambers", the provision already introduced after the start of the war by the Draghi government (and which was due to expire at the end of 2022).

Therefore, on mailings, the line is of continuity with respect to the provisions of the previous Executive.

Precisely between the end of this year and the beginning of next, the sixth aid decree for Ukraine could arrive on the government table: this time the need expressed by Kiev, with the arrival of winter and the intensification of bombing at points strategic,

is to use air defense missile systems to protect the country's infrastructure from Russian attacks from the air.

For this reason, the most accredited hypothesis is that of the 'Aspide' systems, which in these hours prevails over the possibility of supplying the 'Samp/T' system, much more advanced but also rarer and therefore difficult to find.

The sixth aid package therefore begins to take shape, which will be contained in a new decree, however not yet on the table.

The provision, as Defense Minister Guido Crosetto has repeatedly reiterated, would in any case pass through Parliament.

Meanwhile, Moscow stigmatizes, through the Russian Foreign Minister, the training of Ukrainian soldiers by the Atlantic Alliance, which according to Lavrov would take place in the "United Kingdom, Germany,

in favor of the Ukrainian military on the national territory and to have sent to date "only four members of the Armed Forces to Germany as part of the European training group, who, at the moment, are planning possible training cycles to take place in the future".

In fact, only two weeks ago the EU Council had launched the Union's military assistance mission, 'Eumam', to support and provide training to up to 15,000 members of the Ukrainian armed forces.

in favor of the Ukrainian military on the national territory and to have sent to date "only four members of the Armed Forces to Germany as part of the European training group, who, at the moment, are planning possible training cycles to take place in the future".

In fact, only two weeks ago the EU Council had launched the Union's military assistance mission, 'Eumam', to support and provide training to up to 15,000 members of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Beyond the Russian propaganda, however, what actually concerns our country are the hypotheses on the sending of arms.

With the supply of the Skyguard-Aspide, Italy would guarantee a weapon with high tactical mobility, even if of an older generation: it is a short-range surface-to-air missile system against the air threat carried out at low and very low altitudes.

The missiles are deposited in the Rivolto hangars (Udine), where at this point the thrusters could be updated to make them usable.

Instead, the supply of the 'Samp/T' system to Kiev could only be postponed, a hypothesis that had been taken into consideration and which, at least for now, seems to be drifting away due to technical problems in the joint missile defense program carried out together with the France.

The 'Samp/T'

it is a medium-range missile system suitable for operating in conditions in which there are reduced reaction times against the air threat, it has high mobility and the possibility of adapting the device to the times of any maneuver.

The current version has state-of-the-art capabilities in countering airborne threats and short-range tactical ballistic missiles.

Our armed forces - according to what emerges from the official public sources of the Army - are equipped with five batteries at the fourth anti-aircraft artillery regiment in Mantua which, since the entry into service of the system in 2013, have been used in multiple operational and training.

Between 2015 and 2016 a Samp/T unit was also deployed in Rome for surveillance of the capital's skies on the occasion of the Extraordinary Jubilee.

Italy supports Ukraine not only with weapons.

Aid to the resistance would arrive - according to what Corriere della Sera reported - also from a bunker near Rome, where the areas of conflict of Russian threats are identified with a satellite system.

However, the lunge on military aid to Kiev comes in these hours from the Russian Foreign Minister, Serghei Lavrov, who also includes Italy among the countries where military training of the Ukrainians takes place, accusing NATO and the USA of directly participating in the conflict.

For Lavrov, the exercises are carried out on the territory of "the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and other NATO countries. In addition to training on their territory, hundreds of Western instructors work directly on the ground, showing the Ukrainians how to shoot with the weapons supplied".

Temporary trusteeship in order to ensure production continuity and security of supplies.

This is the solution that came out of the Council of Ministers to save the Sicilian Isab-Lukoil refinery in Priolo, considered strategic and essential to guarantee Italy the necessary supplies.

The strategy to secure the Priolo complex and prevent its closure has been definitively finalized in the last few hours and has been included in the decree "Urgent measures to protect the national interest in strategic production sectors", approved by the government.

And, according to what has been learned, with the request for temporary administration will also come the appointment of a commissioner who can be appointed for 12 months, which can be extended for another 12.

Satisfaction is expressed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

"A rule - reads a note from Palazzo Chigi - with which the Government intervenes, among other things, to guarantee the continuity of work in the refinery which employs around 10 thousand people with related activities".

"The purpose of the emergency intervention - she adds - is to protect at the same time a national strategic energy node and the employment levels which are so significant for Sicily and the entire nation".

Among the other hypotheses circulating in recent days there was also a possible temporary waiver on sanctions on Russian oil, as Bulgaria and Croatia have already obtained.

Meanwhile, the Financial Times relaunches the rumors about the US fund of private investors Crossbridge Energy Partners which has long since set its sights on the refinery.

The state-sponsored trusteeship solution comes on the heels of what Germany did last September to save the Schwedt refinery in east Germany and other German subsidiaries of the Russian giant Rosfnet.

The federal government thus assumed control of the oil group's assets.

During the trusteeship the production cycle should be adjusted to refine other types of crude oil.

Indeed, Priolo was conceived to essentially refine Russian oil.

To give an idea of ​​what the blockade of Priolo is for Italy, just make the comparisons with Berlin.

Rosfnet's German subsidiaries produce 12% of the petroleum products used in Germany.

The Sicilian refinery alone

produces 22% of the products derived from refining (fuels, diesel, petrol) used in Italy but, according to Confindustria estimates, the percentage would be 30%.

Not to mention the 3,000 direct and indirect jobs and the entire related economy which represents 53% of the GDP of the province of Syracuse.

The proposal to put Isab-Lukoil under a trusteeship was already on the table of the Draghi government in September, brought forward by the Sicilian senator of the Democratic Party Antonio Nicita.

With the new government, the senator presented an amendment to the Dl Aiuti ter and was part of it with the Minister of Enterprise Adolfo Urso.

"With fiduciary management - explains Nicita - non-Russian oil supply contracts can now be signed, validated with the US sanctions system,