Maneuver, ready the letter of the Eu to Italy. Renzi: the budget does not change – Rai News

For the Brussels-too many one-off” measures that do not guarantee the tightness of the budget. The Commission accepts, then divide by the deficit reconstruction of the affected areas on August 24, but not the plan to put in safety all the areas of catastrophe risk in the Country. Renzi: we respect the rules, the budget does not change

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October 24, 2016

You wait until Tuesday the Commission’s letter to Italy (and five or six other countries, including Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Estonia, and perhaps France and the Netherlands) on the draft budget for 2017, which, according to Brussels, presents some critical aspects in the observance of the rules of the stability and growth pact. It is a question of clarification is required before any and not the hoped-for decision of “reject” such documents.

According to the rules of the “european semester”, in fact, after the presentation of the proofs, by mid-October, the Commission may reject those that do not meet the criteria within the next two weeks. First, however, is in contact with the governments through a “constructive dialogue”, as it was called in these days from Eu sources, with the goal of finding points of compromise and to avoid the repetition: it would be the first time that a budget is rejected, and in Brussels, the assumption does not like at all. The letter hold today is in this phase.

The doubts of Europe stood on the front of revenue, “for too many one-off” measures that do not guarantee the tightness of the budget; on the one of the outputs to the national plan for the protection, earthquake resistant, considered structural and non-structural emergency: the Commission agrees to deduct the corresponding amount from the deficit reconstruction of the affected areas on August 24, but not the plan to put in safety all the areas of catastrophe risk in the Country.

Ok instead of for the increase in expenditure on migrants for the next year than in 2016. This impose Eu rules, which can be modified only with the consent of all the governments. Therefore, the Commission does not approve the deficit in 2017 to 2.3% expected in the financial. Asking for it to be filed down to a decimal. One effort of the 1.6 billion that required by Brussels last year, has granted to Italy 19 billion of flexibility and that this year, forcing the rules, would be ready to give an additional $ 15 billion bonus on consolidation.

Renzi warns Eu: we respect the rules, the budget does not change
The maneuver is “no change”. Matteo Renzi responds in advance to the Eu Commission, which is ready to send Italy a letter with the remarks on the Budget law. The letter “will arrive and will cover a whole series of Countries, the differences are minimal,” said the premier to Tg5. And therefore, he assured, manoeuvre “will not change for the citizens. Equitalia if he goes, there is the fourteenth for the one who has less than a thousand euros of pension, there is money to revive the business”. Of the rest, has found the premier in the interview, “we have done things in the rule, the of Italy fully complies with the rules, even if you do not share.”

Indeed, he had written shortly before to his e-news, in the Budget law there are “several” good news” that “were possible despite an amazing job of lowering the deficit, since we are at 2.3%, the lowest level in the last ten years”. And among the good news Renzi mentions “the elimination of Equitalia and the option to pay fines without the supersanzioni and interest on arrears; and the two billion more on health care, starting with oncology drugs innovative; the money of “Industry 4.0″ with a package of measures to the competitiveness which has no equal in the recent past; the lowering of taxes, additional: from the Ires (corporate tax) 24% to the Vat, the Iri, the canon Rai, which drops from 100 to 90 euros, up to the tax-agricultural land; the increase of pensions for those who take less than a thousand euro-will they have a the fourteenth. And the ability to retire with a few years in advance with the formula ‘Ape’R 21;.

The premier has reminded that Italy is a big contributor to the Union, which receives much less than me. “What we have said, and on this we will be inflexible – assured – is: Italy, every year 20 billion to the Eu, the decision of the Monti government, and it receives only 12, I’m tired, this mechanism can go forward.” As for the president of the Council, it is not possible to go forward with the current management of migrants, on which the Eu “has something to be forgiven”. “If they want that Italy spends less than for immigration, and we agree – he concluded-to begin to do what they promised and still not done: to open their doors to migrants”.