(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 17 - "This increase in the price of gas is comparable to a tax on our economy, not just that of Italy, I am speaking as a member of the ECB's steering committee, and therefore we must avoid competition in an attempt to move this tax from 'to each other within the air because we can't postpone it, we have to absorb it and absorb it as quickly as possible".
Said the governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, speaking at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice for the presentation of the book "History of the Bank of Italy", in memory of the author Gianni Toniolo.
"If this means having an effect on real, negative wages,