The government will reform the Culture Bonus. Meloni: “It is unfair to give it to high incomes”

He speaks for over twenty minutes in front of the camera, behind him a Christmas tree illuminated by flashing lights. Giorgia Meloni updates the list of Giorgia’s notes, the format invented by Tommaso Longobardi, communication guru of Fratelli d’Italia. And in the second appointment, introduced by showing the stickers affixed to the agenda by his daughter Ginevra, he ranges between the most disparate topics: the Budget law, the fight against illegal immigration, Italy’s role in the world, responding to the criticisms addressed to the government over the last few days. “This year the Italian economy is growing more than the German, French and Spanish ones. A sign that even in times of difficulty our businesses can make a difference”, she says, listing the good news of the week. Among which it includes the exclusion, at European level, of wine and meat from the black list of harmful foods. “A decisive success for Made in Italy”, is the consideration of the premier.

Meloni then begins to argue the reasons why the government “defends the choices made”, to the point that “nothing can stop us. Except obviously the elections and the consent of the Italians”. And so we move on to the complaints received for example from the Bank of Italy on the ceiling on cash and the use of the POS. In this regard, Meloni shows an old letter from 2019 in which the ECB warned the Italian government (it was Count Two) from setting a ceiling on the use of cash that is too low. “Last week, then, the European Council set the limit on cash at 10 thousand euros. What does it mean, that the European Union favors tax evasion?”, added Meloni.

In the folds of the financial maneuver, however, the premier defended the flat tax of up to 85 thousand in turnover (“Does it favor VAT numbers instead of employees? It is false”), as well as explained why the culture bonus for 18 year olds needs to be reviewed. “I find it unfair that at the age of 18 it goes to everyone, even to the highest incomes, such as the children of parliamentarians, my daughter,” she specified. “So it needs to be reviewed, also trying to fight scams”.

On immigration, Meloni warned that “there will be no change of course”, recalling the European summit in Tirana which he attended last week (“think, the meeting was held in Piazza Italia and in a stadium built by an Italian . A sign that Italy can be central in the world”).