Basic income key social measure - Conte

(ANSA) - Rome, December 10 - Premier Giuseppe Conte stressed the importance of the government's plans to introduce a 'citizenship wage' basic income for jobseekers and to cut extremely high State pensions during a meeting with trade unions on Monday. "The citizenship wage is a reform that makes me proud to be premier," Conte said at the meeting, according to sources.
    "It's a fundamental social-policy measure.
    "We want to intervene with regards to the 'golden pensions.
    "Doing so is an act of social fairness".
    He also commented on the plan for a 'fiscal peace' to help people to resolve disputes with the tax authorities. "Our goal is to have a fiscal pact with the citizens. A real alliance," he said, according to the sources.
    "We won't be tolerant of evasion. Insisting on rigor benefits the whole community".