Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday said
banks and insurance companies have been called on to make a
contribution to the budget law in a "great change from the past"
when resources to support them were provided "and nobody invoked
a social revolt", well-informed sources said.
Meloni was addressing a meeting between the government and
unions on the 2025 budget bill, speaking about the measure's
financial coverage, the sources said.
Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti "will be more punctual than
I, but I want to say that the solidity, the credibility and the
courage of this government have allowed to make banks and
insurance companies participate in the coverage of the budget
law", the premier said, according to the sources.
For Meloni, this is a "great change from the past, when
resources were instead found with the budget law to support
banks and insurance companies, and nobody invoked a social
revolt".
In the budget, banks, which have enjoyed high profits in recent
years thanks to the ECB putting up interest rates, and insurance
companies have been called on to make a 3.5-billion-euro
contribution, which will to go the national health system.
Last week, Maurizio Landini, leader of Italy's biggest and most
leftwing trade union Cgil, said the time had come for a "real
social revolt" in Italy.
"I believe that the time has come for a real social revolt
because we can't go on like this", he said in speaking about the
November 29 general strike called by Cgil and another big union,
Uil, against the 2025 budget.
Landini said that the union is working to change the budget
law, "because wages, healthcare, education, people's stability
of life must return to being at the centre of politics"
The meeting at Palazzo Chigi is being attended by Meloni,
together with Giorgetti, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani, Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso,
Labour Minister Marina Calderone, Education Minister Giuseppe
Valditara, Health Minister Orazio Schillaci, Public
Administration Minister Paolo Zangrillo and Government
Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano.
The unions attending include Cgil, Cisl, Uil, Ugl, Usb, Cida,
Cisal, Confedir, Confintesa, Confsal, Ciu and Cse.
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