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06 August 2019It will not be a parallel table, as Matteo Salvini reiterates before the social partners, but it has all the features. At the Viminale meeting with 46 associations the Minister of the Interior clearly explains the intentions of the League for the next maneuver. According to the deputy prime minister, Italy's situation calls for a financial budget that goes "beyond current spending", with the EU's peace of mind. "It is obvious that some constraints to which we must submit must be re-discussed, otherwise nothing we have said is possible", he declares. Moreover, the project is at least ambitious: investments in public works and infrastructures and lowering of taxes. From this point of view, the minister argues, there is also the study "the elimination of the Tasi, which cuba around a billion, and the reorganization of the taxation on the house".

For the leader of the Carroccio "it is the moment of courage not to pull a living otherwise we arrive at the end of the year at zero point" and therefore we cannot be satisfied with a "game of three cards" where the reductions must be recovered with new measures. "We do not want a maneuver where I put ten billion euros on one side, removing them from the other side. The flexibility that we will ask Europe to serve three objectives: investments, public works, cutting taxes. We are interested in a lot 'people have fewer taxes, if you call flat tax or cut the wedge does not matter, I am not anchored to the names ", Salvini's reasoning that to reach the goal also thinks of the stop of 80 euros to move them to other measures. To go from saying to doing it is clear that "you cannot stay below 2% in the deficit-GDP ratio". A vision that "evidently" is different from that of the Economy Minister, Giovanni Tria.

On the lowering of taxes the Minister of the Interior finds a unanimous consent from those present at the table. The president of Confindustria, Vincenzo Boccia, highlights how we should "combine flat tax and tax wedge by reducing the intermediate rates in the first case and lowering the weight of taxes and contributions on low wages, also in the form of incentives to work, in the second". The unions, as explained by the general secretary of the Uil Carmelo Barbagallo, await "at least some lines that put on paper what we intend to do with the maneuver", because the lowering of taxes is fine "but we would like to understand how and to whom". Salvini does not exempt himself from throwing an arrow at the M5S government comrades telling of having received a "unanimous no" from companies and workers' representatives on the minimum wage and the yes to the Table.

On the table the playing cards will be played, the game will see its main development in September, when the unions expect to stop the ping pong of meetings between the Presidency of the Council and the Interior Ministry. On the subject, the hardest is the CGIL which, through the words of Deputy Secretary-General Gianna Fracassi, underlines how Salvini should participate in the Palazzo Chigi table as a place for comparison. A thought also shared by the deputy general secretary of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra, who hopes that the government will be able to "summarize". A distinction on which the M5S rushes. Indeed, some pentastellate sources point out that Salvini did "look bad" by improvising "trade union spokesman" but the latter acknowledged Palazzo Chigi as an official place to talk to the government. Premises that are not exactly rosy for a discussion that promises to be hot.