Demographic growth is absolute priority says Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 29 - Italy's demographic growth after years of falling birth rates is an absolute priority for the government, Premier Giorgia Meloni said at her year-end press conference Thursday.
    The government has appointed a family minister with a specific brief to boost flagging birth rates by helping working mothers through tax breaks, more and better nursery care, and other moves.
    The 'demographic issue is for us an absolute priority and is therefore for us an economic issue too. We consider the issue of supporting parenthood a priority and therefore taxation must also take this into account," Meloni said. (ANSA).