Italian → English transcript

The government’s work continues to tackle the rise in fuel prices,

which is a consequence of the crisis that is affecting the Middle East.

From the very beginning we activated all the mechanisms available to ensure price

transparency, and to intervene together with the Guardia di Finanza and the

transparency, and to intervene together with the Guardia di Finanza and the

anomali al distributore.

And it is thanks to this activity that so far in Italy the rise in prices

has in any case been lower than what is happening in the main European countries.

It is not enough for us, of course,

and so today the government has decided to adopt a new measure that moves in

provvedimento che si muove nella stessa direzione,

the same direction, and falls in line with what we have done so far.

The decree law that was passed today basically provides for three things.

First, we are reducing the

price of fuel by about 25 cents per liter for everyone. Second, we are introducing a

Secondo, introduciamo un credito d'imposta a favore degli

tax credit in favor of haulage companies that is equal to the increase

in fuel costs that these haulage companies are bearing,

because we want to prevent the increase

aumento dei prezzi dei beni di consumo. È una misura che, tra l'altro,

viene prevista anche per i nostri pescatori. Terzo e ultimo punto, molto importante,

especially when linked to the others,

is that we are introducing an anti- speculation mechanism. In other words,

we want to strictly

dai petrolieri e dai distributori all'effettiva variazione dei prezzi del greggio

because we do not want these resources we are investing, which are Italians’ money,

because we do not want these resources we are investing, which are Italians’ money,

che sono soldi degli italiani,

to end up in the hands of speculators.

It is a mechanism that will make it possible to immediately

to ensure that oil companies and retailers lower the price at the pump at the

same time as the decrease in the price of crude oil at international level.

It is a package of measures that has a clear objective in the short term,

It is a package of measures that has a clear objective in the short term,

namely to stop the possible surge in prices linked to the crisis,

a crisis that clearly we are all working to bring to an end in the shortest

possible time. And the message we want to give citizens is simple:

possible time. And the message we want to give citizens is simple:

we will continue to do everything that is within our power to prevent

that people speculate about what is happening and to prevent the consequences

of the crisis from impacting the families and businesses of this nation.