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- Monday, 24 August 2026 · Analysis
The diesel excise duty cut expires today: 17 cents per litre return from 25 August
Decree-law 139/2026 keeps the excise duty on automotive diesel at 532.90 euros per thousand litres until 24 August. Without a new measure, the discount lapses right during the return-from-holidays traffic.
- Sunday, 23 August 2026 · Analysis
2027 Budget, party pledges and funding sources still not indicated
The groundwork begins for the legislature's last budget law: Irpef cut, freeze on the retirement age, incremental flat tax. The government is asking the European Union for up to 36 billion in flexibility.
- Sunday, 23 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Regional President Attilio Fontana has requested recognition of a state of emergency over damage from the storm. The request was made public on the evening of Saturday, August 22, and is now awaiting review by the Council of Ministers. The Region reported over 450 fire department interventions and more than 400 people evacuated. il Dolomiti
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Analysis
Meloni claims credit for the EU Pact as six countries announce returns to Italy
The Prime Minister describes the new European Pact on migration and asylum as a positive turning point and draws a distinction between the matter and Schengen. Meanwhile the Netherlands becomes the sixth country to announce transfers of asylum seekers to Italy.
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Lead Story
PNRR law enters into force: €1.05 billion more and levy on parcel shipments postponed to October
Law 152/2026 supplements four investments under the Plan and moves the levy on low-value non-EU parcels to 1 October. The reprogramming, however, still awaits Brussels' formal decision. Meanwhile the government has approved the implementing decree on artificial intelligence.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · Analysis
Migrants, Meloni separates Schengen from the EU Pact as countries ready for returns rise to five
The President of the Council responds on Facebook to criticism from the Pd, defending the new European framework on "Dublin cases." Meanwhile the press review counts five member states willing to send asylum seekers back to Italy.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · Analysis
Former Ilva, the Italian consortium requests a new tender: talks at Palazzo Chigi in September
Federacciai and fourteen companies have filed an expression of interest for the cold rolling area of Taranto alone. Three sticking points with the government: new tender, price, legal shield on past liabilities.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The Caffè della Versiliana, in Marina di Pietrasanta, hosts today a public meeting with MP Giovanni Donzelli, national head of organization for Fratelli d'Italia. The event is announced as being dedicated to the main topics on the national agenda ahead of September's resumption: among these, reform of the electoral law, internal balances within the majority coalition, and the economic situation. The news currently comes from a single source (the organizers' statement carried by Libera Cronaca); no independent confirmation available.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · Lead Story
Border controls with Spain, government considers going beyond September 1
The Schengen suspension introduced on August 1 expires on September 1. Government sources cited by Il Messaggero do not rule out an extension; no public measure has been adopted so far.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · Analysis
The 17-cent cut on diesel expires on August 24, mobile excise duties return from the 25th
The decree approved by the Council of Ministers on August 4 moved the end of the diesel discount to August 24. The President of the Council announced that the mobile excise duty mechanism will come into force the following day.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
After the European Commission's decision to include nuclear power among the investments eligible for exemption from the Stability Pact, Noi Moderati leader Maurizio Lupi called on August 19 for progress on next-generation plants in Italy, linking the move to lower energy bills for households and businesses: "nuclear power must be pursued because it is a strategic opportunity." The position reopens debate within the governing majority over the timeline for the sector. The report currently stems from a single source (Italpress agency, reproduced by Stampa Parlamento); no independent confirmation is available.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The decree approved by the Council of Ministers on August 4, 2026 extended from August 7 to August 24 the 17-cent-per-liter reduction on diesel, made up of 14 cents in excise duty and 3 cents in value-added tax, also extended to paraffinic diesel and biodiesel released for consumption during the same period. The tax credit for road haulage was also extended through August. "Starting August 25, the mobile excise duty mechanism will come back into effect," said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Single but primary source: Council of Ministers statement and Prime Minister's statement.
- Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · Analysis
Bill on digital devices in the first three years of life presented in the Senate
The text, presented on 23 July with Senator Malpezzi as first signatory and co-signed by lawmakers from all groups, provides for national guidelines, information modules in pre-birth courses and a technical panel at the Ministry of Health. The process is at an early stage.
- Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On August 18 more than 30 million Italians were reported to be involved in the return from summer holidays, with driving safety recommendations issued ahead of traffic peaks. The news currently comes from a single source (Agenzia DIRE); no independent confirmation available.
- Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · Lead Story
The Interior Ministry keeps controls with Spain until August 31 and says no to returns from Germany
The suspension of Schengen at air and sea borders with Spain remains in force at least until the end of the month. On the same day the Interior Ministry informs Berlin that it will not accept the transfers of asylum seekers provided for by the Dublin Regulation.
- Tuesday, 18 August 2026 · Analysis
Asylum seeker transfers, Rome and Berlin seek agreement on European procedures
A different story from the one published this morning in this section, dedicated to the hypothesis of an Irpef revision. Here the topic is the dialogue between the Italian government and the German government on the transfer of asylum seekers to Italy: what is known, and what is currently not known.
- Tuesday, 18 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Eighty years have passed since the explosion that occurred on August 18, 1946, on the Vergarolla shore, in Pola, and for the anniversary Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni released a statement: the text speaks of the gravest and bloodiest massacre in the history of republican Italy and of "an unpunished crime," noting that the perpetrators were never identified, the instigators never found and the purposes never clarified. The statement credits the Italian community of Pola, exiles and associations with having brought the affair back into collective memory (ANSA). The report currently comes from a single source (the Prime Minister's Office statement picked up by ANSA); no independent confirmation available.
- Tuesday, 18 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
According to the review of Italian newspaper front pages for August 18, the dispute between Italy and Germany over the transfer of asylum seekers to Italy remains open and the two capitals are seeking an agreement: Berlin reiterated in previous days that it wants to apply European procedures and resume transfers, while the Italian government disputes at least some of the cases indicated by the German authorities. The negotiation follows weeks of tensions that began with the Ceuta crisis (Sarno Notizie). The report currently comes from a single source (a front-page review); no independent confirmation available and no public act from either administration in the material at hand.
- Tuesday, 18 August 2026 · Analysis
IRPEF 2027, one hypothesis is to move the 43% threshold from 50,000 to 60,000 euros
The government is studying for the 2027 budget not a cut in the intermediate rate but a widening of the 33% bracket. Estimated maximum benefit of one thousand euros a year, constant above 60,000 euros.
- Tuesday, 18 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
In an interview with the weekly Chi, the Prime Minister places the reduction of taxes on labor and wage growth at the center of the final phase of the legislature, pointing to the cut in the tax wedge, the new Irpef and over a million more jobs. The government indicates more than 20 billion allocated through 2027 for public sector contract renewals. Single source: the interview itself; no independent verification of the figures cited. (Stampa Parlamento)
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