Competition will save the environment. The turning point of the motion on nuclear power

A motion does not make a nuclear spring but obliges the government to come out into the open. On Tuesday, the Chamber approved the majority motion on nuclear power and, in part, that of similar content promoted by Action and Italia viva with the votes of the centre-right and the Third Pole. In itself, this is an act without practical consequences but it can have important political significance. Meanwhile, for the genesis of the document. Although timid in the choice of words, it is the result of intense parliamentary work, which has seen the collaboration of the Deputy Minister of the Environment, Vannia Gava, and representatives also of part of the opposition. The same minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin – who in the past had said he was awaiting an input from Parliament – ​​commented: “We will now discuss it with our European partners and evaluate, with the utmost attention, how to include it in the national energy mix for the next decades”.