• Dl Fisco, government gets confidence, yes: it is law. Ok without changes after first reading in the room
  • National Innovation Plan, Conte: "We will soon realize the digital identity"
  • Conte: "Change of shirt? Episodes isolated, I'm not worried"
  • Popolare Bari, Conte: we will not protect any banker, we will protect savers
  • The Senate approves the maneuver with 157 yes and 108 no
  • The government collects the confidence in the Senate with 166 votes in favor and 128 against

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17 December 2019

"With the maneuver we have avoided a VAT increase of € 23 billion. We have cut taxes on labor by € 3 billion. From October 1, 2020, no one will pay the super ticket. In the current accounts of citizens, they will receive up to € 2 thousand in cashback if you will pay with digital payments ". Thus stated the President of the Council Giuseppe Conte.

"If you don't like the escape plan send me home"
"If you don't like the anti-evasion plan, try to send me home. As long as I am there, I will fight evasion until the last day and I trust that no one in the government wants to stop this opportunity," he adds.

"Fight against evasion is 100 billion treasure"
"We have not introduced foreclosures. We do not introduce new taxes. If in 100 days we have found 23 billion, in a year how much do you think we will find?" he says, with an emphasis on "the fight against tax evasion that will give us a lot: our treasure, the country's treasure - he explains - is 100 billion (the amount that evades Italy, ed). We will get a lot from this fight. And from this hoard we can allocate a part to cut taxes by 20, 30 up to 50%.

"Italy submerged by bureaucracy, need reform"
For me, the acceleration of the reform of Justice and bureaucracy is a priority, because we are overwhelmed by bureaucracy ", he says.

"The spending review will take place on the January discussion table"
"We have moved in 100 days, and in 100 days we cannot make a serious spending review. I will never make linear cuts, but in the comparison that will open in January, between the projects and the priorities of interventions, there will be the spending review ".

Mes, "serious majority debate, we are improving it"
On the reform of the salvage fund, "there has been a serious and constructive debate by the majority forces, whom I thank". The Mes "we are improving it, confirming that nothing was concluded and I have not subscribed anything" returns to reiterate the premier.

Prescription, "comes into force but other measures are needed"
The statute of limitations comes into effect automatically and I have already said that it is right, only that it must be accompanied with other measures that guarantee the reasonable duration of the processes. These are the measures that need to be accelerated ".

"Better right or left? Better this government"
"Is it better with the right or the left? Without disturbing anyone I can say that I feel more comfortable with this executive" he says. "Right and left, if we talk about twentieth-century schematisms, they are a bit outdated. It is clear that a polarization has been created in this context". From there is the right, and from here? "This way, call it what you want, is it a problem of classifications? Center-left, but this puts old formulas back," explains Conte.

Cannabis, "non-government parliamentary initiative"
"It is a parliamentary initiative and it is not of the government. It is not the legalization of a drug. Cannabis is produced by 12,000 farmers, about 3000 thousand companies. It was a measure that took into account this productive fabric. But it is not a government initiative "clarifies.

"What would I vote for in the ER? Definitely not right"
"It is an election that I do not neglect, it is an important Region. But from here to say that automatically the result ... What would I vote? Definitely not the right".

"Renzi wants the glass half full? It will be overflowing .."
Renzi said he wants to see the glass half full? "But look at it will see it overflowing, this glass, from now until 2023" assures the premier.

"I believe in this majority, we work on concrete issues"
"I believe in this government with determination and heart, it is not a fideistic perspective. It is obvious that if I pause to read the newspapers every morning I see reconstructions very shouted even within the majority. But the prospect of work is different, when we work we do it on concrete problems ".

"Let's move forward, we are responsible to the country"
"We have a responsibility towards the country, we work hard to offer answers. We have asked for confidence on 29 programmatic points and it is clear that we cannot do everything together, in January we will see each other" he says, answering a question about the duration of the government .

Popolare di Bari, "we act but inflexible on those responsible"
"Our project is not to nationalize banks, to nationalize companies. We must make a virtue of necessity. What happens with 2,770 employees and 600,000 customers? What do we do? We send them to papers and 48? The government," cum grano salis ", with intelligence, he intervenes. But on the responsibilities of the management we will be inflexible "he assures.

"Never heard the top management of the bank"
"He was wrong. I never heard them and there was no summit with the People's Bank of Bari and it seems to me that he was denied" he replied to those who told him of an audio that reported an interview between the president and administrator of bank in which it is said, among other things, that the attention on the Popular was also shared by the top management of the government.

"Tuning with Grillo, government chance for Italy"
"I've talked to Grillo a few times and I've seen him very conscious - and there's a lot of harmony in this - that this is a historic opportunity to make Italy greener and more digital, to improve this country."

"I voted for M5S in Europe but I was never registered"
"At the last European elections I voted M5S" confirms. However, in another passage of the program, the premier reminds us of "never having been registered with the Movement". If my heart beats to the left? "Yes, it is true", explained however claiming the consistency of his speeches despite the change of government. "If I had to publish them, I shouldn't change anything, I always talked about respect for the person and had a programmatic vision in the general interest," he underlines.

"The consensus of Salvini fades, blowing on fears pays in the short"
Salvini's consent? Well, it's fading a little ... ". What do I see it from?" I say this in general, when there is a very aggressive communicative machine, which pushes on fears, it is a wind that swells and swells but it is a historical parabola that then deflates ".

"I am a critical Europeanist. I defend Italy's interests"
"I am the President of the Council who has avoided the infringement procedure twice. I think I have demonstrated that in Europe I sit, I study for the respect of those who follow us, and I try to defend national interests. I offer my majority a critical, non-fideistic Europeanism that defends national interests but in a hard, close and constructive confrontation "concludes Conte. "Those who embrace another way of being, those who do not study the dossiers and do not go to the meetings, go ahead, but this is how the country goes adrift".