"The government is telling the truth"

The complicated inverted mechanism engaged by the government offers a series of mirror games that baffle the viewers. And the Senate report on the maneuver, released yesterday by the Minister of Economy Tria, began to dispose of the mirrors.

By asking (for those who are not clear) a "public accounts truth operation", the minister seems on the one hand fully in agreement with the European Union calling for a substantial correction of the accounts: "It is important not to eschew European rules", he warned, not because of the meanness of those whom Salvini and Di Maio scornfully call "European bureaucrats", but because of the blows markets would inflict on the Italian people: to deviate from these rules, would have additional adverse effects on growth and expansive policy, increase the cost of debt financing ". Decisive guidance would therefore be necessary in the sense of "greater prudence in spending".

But the good intentions of the owner of the economy then stop on the threshold of concrete reality: the rest of his intervention is a figure skating on ice say nothing, except that the fault of the Italian evils, it is the previous governments , their "unrealistic promises" and "bonus policies" (bonus that the current government however takes care not to get rid of.) True corrections to the pasticciaio of the maneuver Tria does not speak … Figures not even the shadow: he does not say whether the deficit-to-GDP ratio will be corrected and how much, but he does not say whether mammoth credits for customer measures (income and early retirement) will be reduced.

On the contrary: the government badumes no responsibility in this case and refers to "decisions of the Parliament" which "remain the institutional place where improvements to the government proposal can be implemented and approved". A blow to the circle, with the invocation of the "dialogue with the EU", and a blow to the barrel: "We will not abandon our priorities", even if "we carefully evaluate their real costs ". All sufficiently vague and useful to take the time to let Salvini and Di Maio say that I agree with Tria.

Since the Quirinale, which follows the situation step by step and where Tria stood yesterday for an interview, we try to look at the glbad half full, pointing out that all that is needed to "avoid the wall against the wall "and more" risks "for the Italian economy is positive. Mattarella, however, made a strong and precise appeal to the Conté government: "Without solid and stable public finances, it is impossible to protect social rights in an effective and sustainable way," he warned, recalling that "the budget of State is a public good ". The Democratic Party harshly attacked the minister for attacking his governments: "He has become ridiculous in the courtroom," criticized Matteo Renzi. Renato Brunetta, of Forza Italia, asks: "Tria and Conte can continue the operation evoked the truth and take the situation in hand, away from populism, sovereignty and anti-Europeanism and avoiding Italy, in extremis, commissioner humiliation? ". The Bernini parent appreciates the minister's "less-than-muscular" approach, but stigmatizes the "hypocrisy" of returning the ball to Parliament in order to remove the government's "overthrow responsibility".