• Energy, towards a decree against expensive bills

  • Covid-19, Orlando: in favor of reconsidering quarantine as a disease

  • Dear-bills, Cingolani: "Soon our proposal, we await precise assessments on the increases"

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23 September 2021 A 3 billion decree to counter the expensive bills and a 900 million intervention to finance the quarantine of workers which would return to be equated to an illness and therefore paid by the INPS.



These are the two items on the agenda of the CDM convened for this afternoon at 4 pm.



By recovering from the unused anti-Covid funds, the government therefore aims to launch a bill-cutting decree, which should also host the refinancing of about 900 million of the quarantine allowance. The Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, had already pledged at the end of August to find a remedy to prevent workers forced to quarantine for contacts with a positive Covid also found themselves with a salary cut because they were put on leave or suspended from unpaid work . The measure, introduced at the beginning of the pandemic and financed in 2020 with 663 million, had not been renewed for 2021, except for fragile workers (with a coverage of 282 million). But now we are working to insert it into the new decree,while the refinancing of 50% leave for parents with children in Dad, requested by the Minister for the Family Elena Bonetti, is still being evaluated.   



"Costs such as those of increases in the bill must not weigh on the pockets of citizens", assured Minister Luigi Di Maio, confirming that the government meeting will give the green light to the decree.


The solutions to calm the electricity and gas bills, which from 1 October would suffer increases of 40% and 30%, are still being filed but should go through a temporary reduction, until 31 December, of the system charges. The energy bonus should also be strengthened - which affects households with Isee up to € 8,265, large families (with more than 3 dependent children) with Isee not exceeding € 20,000 and holders of income and citizenship pension - by expanding the audience of beneficiaries or by strengthening the discount. It does not seem that, at least for now, an intervention on VAT, advocated by the Lega di Matteo Salvini, can arrive. While Italy, after other countries such as Spain or France, is moving independently to avoid the maxi-bills, the theme of the increase in the prices ofenergy is on the table of the European Commission: at the informal meeting of energy ministers in Slovenia "most ministers expressed concern about the evolution of prices across the European Union and supported the idea of ​​a common response" , said the Spanish deputy minister for ecological transition, Teresa Ribera, explaining that "the commissioner concluded the debate by letting it be known that they are working on the preparation of proposals for flexible options to address the issue at European level" which "will be announced in the next weeks ".European Union and supported the idea of ​​a "common response, said the Spanish Deputy Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, explaining that" the commissioner concluded the debate by letting it be known that they are working on preparing proposals for flexible options to address the issue at European level "that" will be announced in the coming weeks ".European Union and supported the idea of ​​a "common response, said the Spanish Deputy Minister for Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, explaining that" the commissioner concluded the debate by letting it be known that they are working on preparing proposals for flexible options to address the issue at European level "that" will be announced in the coming weeks ".