Brussels: “Maybe six months to settle the accounts”. A cleaver for the Northern League strategy

(by Massimiliano D'Elia) On 2 July the Commission will confirm the opening of the procedure for excessive debt and will turn the ball to Ecofin for the verdict of 9 July. Give to keep in mind, because around the corner. In Italy, however, the grueling "skirmishes" between the two deputy premieres continue.

The Luigi Di Maio case and the League's Deputy Minister of Economy, Massimo Garavaglia 

"Everyone has doubts about the minimum wage", Highlights Garavaglia. Di Maio: "They tell us where the 15 billion of the Flat tax are, they stop playing on the maneuver". Garavaglia, answers: "I won't tell him the coverages, otherwise Di Maio copies them to us ... Rather tell him the coverages for the minimum wage". 

As always, the rhetoric of these days could reach a synthesis tomorrow at the Council of Ministers. A Council that will be anticipated by a mini-summit of three - premier and two vice premier - with the technician, minister of the economy, Giovanni Tria.

Tomorrow, at the Council of Ministers, a budget adjustment bill should be passed with 5,2 billion in savings and additional revenues compared to forecasts. Nothing else, because we do not want to “negatively influence” the Brussels decision and agitate the markets.

From Brussels some faint opening

The Commission, next July 2, intends to give Italy six months to remedy the public finances, avoiding affecting Ecofin.

Extending the timing of the decision would certainly blow up the medium-term strategy of the League which, with the "anxiety" of the impending infringement procedure, was pressing its foot on the accelerator to increasingly corner the government ally, hoping to blame him for the EU infringement.

Giuseppe Conte, during the pre-Council mini-summit, will therefore ask his two deputies to tone down their tone to avoid upsetting the EU Commission. Giuseppe Conte has been weaving a web with France and Germany for days to avoid the July pronouncement, unfavorable to Italy.

The premier will also ask to slow down on the autonomy of Veneto, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna. The idea would be to fire a draft agreement between the two majority parties in the CDM, to be left for parliamentary examination. A sort of "dream" on Conte's part, because it is unimaginable that the rhetoric between the two majority shareholders of the government could end tomorrow. Also because Conte, at this critical moment, cannot delude himself into being listened to by those who put him there only as a "representative figure" of the expressions of M5S and Lega. Without any power, then.

The moods within the League

Salvini, fresh from the Olympic triumph, wanted to remind Giorgetti that he is the boss: "On the minibots - substantially ridiculed, together with their" godfather "Borghi, by the undersecretary on Sunday, the contract is valid, point 21". Salvini is then taken with micro fractures within the League. Pieces of 90 of the Carroccio begin to be intolerant of Salvini's decision to continue with this government, especially if he fails to bring autonomy home in favor of the northern regions.

High voltage in 5 Stars

In the five stars, the risk of implosion is just around the corner. With the withdrawal of Senator Nugnes from the Movement, the majority in the Senate can count on an advantage of only 3 units. It seems that Di Battista would be frowned upon as the next leader of the Movement, both by many parliamentarians and by Casaleggio - as long as they abolish the rule of "double parliamentary mandate". Di Maio, for its part, is increasingly surrounded from inside and outside. On the Ilva case, he could lose his "face" but also his seat, despite yesterday from Taranto he gave reassuring messages on the rescue of the largest steel mill in Europe.

Brussels: “Maybe six months to settle the accounts”. A cleaver for the Northern League strategy