Northern League Secretary Matteo
Salvini said Monday the party will take the Italian government
to a European court over a previous administration's pension
reforms.
Salvini said Monday the fight is over pension reforms
passed by the former technocratic government led by economist
Mario Monti.
Monti was appointed in late 2011 to steer Italy through a
severe debt crisis, and remained premier until April 2013.
The League announcement came the same day that Premier
Matteo Renzi's government announced a decree on measures to
repay some of pension money withheld under the 2011 law.
Consumer group Codacons said it would appeal that measure
in the courts because it is not equally applied to all
pensioners.
One of the controversial measures Monti's technocratic
government passed to restore market confidence amid feverish
interest rates was the so-called 'Fornero' pension reform, named
after Monti's labour minister, Elsa Fornero.
"We have instructed a lawyer to present an appeal against
the Fornero legislation at the European Court of Human Rights in
Strasbourg, accompanied by the signatures," of people waiting
for their pensions to be reinstated, said Salvini.
Renzi "is losing shots by giving 500 euros to some people
in August, penalizing others," Salvini added.
Renzi announced a plan to give some 3.7 million
pensioners 500 euros each to compensate them for inflation
adjustments taken away by the Monti government.
The European Court of Human Rights recently condemned Italy
for the decision.
Meanwhile, consumer group Codacons said Monday that it is
ready to appeal the new government decree that affects some
lower-income pensions but not all of those that 2ere included in
the 2011 decree which the Constitutional Court last month
rejected.
Codacons said the new decree "appears unconstitutional and
discriminatory" rather than treating all citizens equally.
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