Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti
on Monday defended the government's 2023 budget bill saying that
it targetted resources to where they were most needed.
The package, which features 35 billion euros' worth of new
measures, with around 21 billion devoted to helping families and
firms cope with soaring energy prices, is about to be presented
to parliament.
The government is committed to "direct resources to where they
are most needed", Giorgetti told the 'Lombardia 2030' economic
and political forum.
"Since last summer,' he said, 'there has been a high level of of
uncertainty that seems to be spreading into the second part of
the year.
"It is not only a characteristic of the Italian economy, but
also of the European and global ones."
The government is trying to "avoid the impact of inflation on
the lives of companies and the most fragile families".
"It is an approach," he explained - "that requires working with
the utmost attention by directing available resources to the
sectors where there is the greatest need".
Giorgetti went on to say that the budget was "inevitably"
focused on current and short-term issues like the cost of living
crisis and energy squeeze.
"The action of the executive is inevitably squeezed on the
present to limit the impact of the energy crisis and inflation
on businesses and families, safeguarding public finance
sustainability.
"It is an approach that requires us to intervene with the utmost
attention, directing resources towards the sectors of greatest
attention", he reiterated.
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