the Senate has approved the budget for 2020. It includes tax on plastic and sugar, as well as measures against tax evasion.
Italy’s new coalition government won a victory Monday when lawmakers in the senate passed a controversial budget for 2020.
With a vote of 166 for and 128 against the budget approved in the parliament’s house of lords late Monday evening. Now, it must be before the end of the year and sent to the house of commons.
the Budget for 2020 has been a challenge for the ruling coalition, there is an uneasy alliance between the left-wing Femstjernebevægelsen and The Democratic Party (PD).
the Budget contains, among other things, a tax on the internet, a plastikskat, a sukkerskat and a greater commitment to combat tax evasion.
This writes the news agency dpa.
Italy, the euro-zone’s third-largest economy, has been plagued by high public debt, like growth has stagnated in recent years.
the Government plans to keep the budget deficit at 2.2 percent of gdp the coming year.
the Leader of the right-wing party Lega, the former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, resigned in august, the party out of the inter-governmental cooperation with the authoritarian party Femstjernebevægelsen. It happened in the hope to trigger a new election, as his Lega stood to win big
Conversely, stood Femstjernebevægelsen to lose, so instead entered the party a coalition government with the PD, otherwise there is the movement’s traditional rival and opponent.
on Saturday participated 40,000 people in a demonstration in the capital Rome organized by the grassroots movement Sardinerne.
Sardinerne was formed a month ago in Bologna by the 32-year-old Mattia Santori and three of his friends to protest against Matteo Salvini.
This writes the news agency Reuters.
Since the first demonstration in Bologna has the grassroots movement spread to other cities in Italy. Participants refers to himself as sardines.
The turns especially towards the Salvinis and the uncompromising policy towards immigrants and immigrants and accusing him of blatant racism.
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