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December 06, 2019The majority summit has begun at Palazzo Chigi to seek agreement on micro-tax corrections, after yesterday's black smoke, and try to unblock the deadlock in the Senate. Italia Viva continues to demand the repeal of plastic tax, sugar tax and company cars.

The premier, Giuseppe Conte, asked the offices of the MEF and the Accountancy for an additional effort to find the necessary coverage for the tax cut. In fact, approximately 500 million euros would be lacking in the appeal. At the table there are the Ministers of the Economy, Roberto Gualtieri, of Cultural Heritage, Dario Franceschini, of Agricultural Policies, Teresa Bellanova, of Relations with Parliament, Federico D'Incà. In addition, the deputy ministers of the economy, Antonio Misiani and Laura Castelli, the undersecretary Maria Cecilia Guerra, the exponents of Italia Viva, Luigi Marattin and Davide Faraone, technicians of the Mef and of the State Accounting Department participate.

Meetings at the Ministry of the Economy were held until late yesterday and this morning to construct hypotheses of coverage with the aim of postponing the entry into force of the plastic tax, now scheduled to start from April 1, 2020. In line with what emerged at last night's meeting, after Italia Viva focused on stopping taxes on plastic and added sugar, but also to improve the norm on company cars.

Di Maio: "Everyone gets up in the morning and says one, let's close it"
"By now, everyone gets up in the morning and says one on the maneuver ... We must have the constancy to end this maneuver. And then that within the maneuver there is a tax that tells the multinationals that, for example, they can no longer bottling the drinks in a non-recyclable bottle, it is sacrosanct ... Here are all friends of Greta in the world, even in Italy but then when we go to reduce, for examples, the plastic not recyclable to sea ... This tax is not now more impacting on businesses, because plastic tax and sugar tax together make 500 million euros that seem like a lot but we are talking about a disincentive that allows companies to reconvert without bogging down the sector ". Thus the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, this morning before the beginning of the summit at Palazzo Chigi.

Hope: 235 million for level diagnostics
"For the first time in this budget law we allocate 235 million to buy equipment for first-level diagnostics in the offices of general practitioners. There are 50,000 in Italy. As well we will have to strengthen our pharmacies. We need to strengthen the pharmacy service model ". These are the words of Roberto Speranza, a member of Parliament of Liberi and Uguali and Minister of Health, in Agorà on Rai Tre, on what is provided for in the maneuver to improve the practice of general medical practices.