Antonio Tajani says Italy’s budget can still be changed in Parliament, naming health care, schools and pensions as areas for possible work.
The deputy prime minister and foreign minister told ANSA that the government had argued from the outset that the budget could be improved during its parliamentary passage. He said it had also held a series of meetings with trade-union representatives and saw room to improve the health-care and school sections after meetings with Cisl and Confsal.
Tajani added that the government would see whether it could do something on pensions. His remarks keep three politically sensitive areas in play, but ANSA’s report gives no proposed amendment, cost, funding source, eligibility rule or timetable.
That distinction matters. Parliamentary negotiation can alter a budget, and talks with unions may help define political priorities. But an opening for changes is not itself a measure for patients, schools or pensioners. The effect of any intervention will turn on the wording of amendments and the money assigned to them.
Tajani’s intervention is therefore a public signal that bargaining over the budget continues after the school-cut reversal cited by ANSA. The next substantive test will be whether proposals on health care, schools or pensions enter the parliamentary process with stated financing.
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- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-14
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