• The Council of Ministers approves the Milleproroghe decree, with the formula "unless otherwise understood"
  • Milleproroghe, Italy Viva does not vote on the rules on motorway concessions and digital innovation
  • Milleproghe and interception decree in the Council of Ministers in progress

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22 December 2019There is a clash over motorway concessions, a rule contained in the Milleproroghe decree. While the grillini speak of a compact majority, Italia Viva asks that a bill be presented in Parliament.

"On the revocation of the concession, I see a finally compact government. In 2020 it will proceed quickly, it must be the year of justice for the victims of the Morandi Bridge". So Luigi Di Maio in an interview with Il Sole 24 Ore, answering a question about cutting compensation to dealers in case of revocation, a rule that has attracted many criticisms of the government, including that of Italia viva, which has not voted for it. Standard that would prelude to a revocation of the concession to Autostrade per l'Italia.

Renzi: "If anyone wants to revoke the concession to Autostrade, he will appear in Parliament"
"If anyone wants to revoke the concession to Autostrade for the affair of the Morandi bridge, they will present themselves in Parliament with a bill. Parliament is sovereign: there will be discussions and the majority will decide. But to use the Milleproroghe opening a potential regulatory chaos and causing the collapse of the trust of foreign investors on Italy is a matter of provincial jumble ". Matteo Renzi, leader of Italia viva, says it in an interview with Repubblica. "Let's go back to the ABC - Renzi continues - in the thousand extensions there are extensions, not the brilliant intuitions of some demagogue".

Bellanova: "No to cunning or country becomes unreliable"
The Minister of Agriculture Teresa Bellanova is critical of the issue of motorway concessions and led the IV offensive in the Council of Ministers against the measures introduced in the Milleproroghe decree. For Bellanova, who gave an interview to the Corriere della Sera, the "Milleproroghe extension. It does not introduce new rules with immediate effect, however without having instructed a previous job of comparison and verification within the majority on the goodness of the measures. It is a vice that some have to get up. " For Bellanova, moreover, "the rules are not changed during construction, giving the world the idea of ​​a totally unreliable country, it is a normal principle of legal civilization. It has already happened with Ilva but here, as it was conceived initially the norm, of which, however, we do not yet know the definitive text, the effect would have even multiplied ". Among the reasons for the dissent also the fact that "it is not possible to approve confused measures which, in order to be correctly framed, implicitly refer to other rules which remain in the background and are not touched, significantly modifying only the application effects. For the minister of Iv, furthermore, "if we want to discuss motorway concessions we do it in the light of the sun, we will not back down. That measure arrived at two o'clock tonight: what was the urgency to have the technicians work at night? We weren't declaring war on another country. "

Palenzona (Aiscat): "Government cannot find a solution and is looking for a shortcut"
The government is unable to find a solution and is looking for a shortcut but thus destroying an entire sector it seems to me a leap in the dark, harmful not so much for the dealerships, for which it is however devastating but above all for the country system. " the president of Aiscat, Fabrizio Palenzona, told the Rai Radio Newspaper. The topic of the interview was the news of the Milleproroghe on motorways. "If there is a negotiation to be done with a dealer, do it," said Palenzona, "but you are unable to find a solution, you are looking for the shortcut of the law and you are destroying a sector. In my opinion, such a decree will not support but will only cause trouble for dealers and trouble for the Italian system, for credibility and for international investors and for thousands of savers who have invested in the stock exchange in motorway companies ".

The withdrawal of the concession to Aspi is possible - said Palenzona - "but the theme is that you do not want to wait for a decision to ascertain if there are faults. A very serious event has happened, whoever is guilty must be prosecuted but so far there is no is the smoking gun. We do nothing but punish the culprits by destroying entire sectors of the country's production, as in this case we will try to point out what very serious damage that only the publication of the decree will cause on the markets. Then we will talk to Parliament that this provision does not enter into force because the damage would be irreversible not only for dealers but for investors.I believe that - Palenzona concluded - if the laws are changed with the milleproroghe that has nothing to do with this sector I wonder who will come more to invest in Italy ".