Italy’s government decides on a budget – citizen income is to be abolished

Giorgia Meloni

Meloni’s legal alliance has a majority in both houses of parliament.

(Photo: Reuters)

Rome What other promises did the right-wing parties make in the Italian election campaign: Matteo Salvini’s Lega wanted to introduce a flat tax of 15 percent, and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party also planned a sharp reduction in income tax.

On top of that, the minimum pension should be doubled. All projects worth billions that would have further burdened Italy’s already ailing public finances.

But the alliance led by Giorgia Meloni has been in power for a few weeks. And at the latest with the presentation of the new budget law, the parties have arrived in everyday government life. The “manoeuvre” of how the law is translated is an Italian peculiarity: the rough budget lines have been fixed for a long time, the law is about the additional expenditure and new debt that the country can and wants to afford.

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