Def, comes a dowry 1.5 billion. Will be devoted to welfare – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published April 10, 2015 at 10:11.
The last change is the April 10, 2015 at 20:56.

It started a little after 20, the Council of Ministers, which must approve the document of economics and finance (Def) and the National Reform Programme (NRP) with the announced cuts of 10 billion to current spending in 2016. The meeting at 9.30 this morning only served to formalize the appointment of Claudio De Vincenti to Secretary to the Prime Minister, replacing Graziano Delrio passed to the guidance of the Ministry of Infrastructure after the departure of Maurizio Lupi. Officially, according to the court of the Council of Ministers to 20 there is the request of the Prime Minister to the various ministries to “clean up” the lyrics to “duplication and inaccuracies” to coordinate them. The goal, he explained the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, is to send within 24 tonight on Def to the European Commission in the final version.

Check a “treasure” by 1.5 billion
In the work on Def technicians Palazzo Chigi and the MEF is meanwhile popped a “treasure” from about 1, 5 billion, which the government define a “bonus”, intended to measures for welfare. The dowry was already written between the lines in the tables of the Stability Programme of Def, developed and tested by cdm last Tuesday, but only today has risen to the surface. In Def these resources should be counted and “made available” for this year. But their use should be defined in an ad hoc decree. The most likely hypothesis is that Renzi thinking of an intervention on the welfare. Maybe with the extension of the bonus 80 euro also to non-taxpayers, one of the projects in which the government has always taken more, but for lack of resources has so far failed to achieve. Or with a speech on poverty and an equivalent of the “citizen’s income” wanted by the Movement 5 Stars.

The origin of the dowry
“bonusDef”, as it was renamed on Twitter, comes from the leeway that the government has wanted to leave on the deficit this year. Ie by the difference between the net deficit trend (2.5% of GDP) – that the accounts would not work – and the programmatic (which remains fixed at 2.6%) that instead the government aims to achieve in 2015 rather simplistically we can say that “worse” accounts, of course within the flexibility allowed by the EU, to seek resources pro-citizens. That 0.1% difference corresponds to approximately 1.5 / 1.6 billion euro. The same amount of which – perhaps not coincidentally – spoke a few weeks ago the Minister of Labour, Giuliano Poletti, by June announcing a specific and autonomous “anti-poverty plan.”

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