Salvini: "We will ask for 5% of profits from the top 10 banks"

“We as the League will ask, and I am convinced that the entire majority will accompany us, a three-year contribution to the top ten Italian banks. If we wanted to leave on a profit of 30 billion, we will settle for a 5% per year for three years”. This is the proposal announced by the Vice-President of the Council and Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvinion the sidelines of the visit to the Pigneto station construction site in Rome.

Intervention on banks, Salvini cites the Spanish case

In particular, underlined Salvini who cited the case of Spain, “I don’t agree with anything about the Sanchez government, except the economic intervention it made on the banks”. “I saw the two half-yearly reports of the two largest Italian banks which made profits of almost 12 billion in the first half – he added – it means that only two banks make profits of more than 24 billion in the year. If you are satisfied with 5% per year…”. Then he clarified: “Let us intervene on the top 10 Italian banks, not on hundreds of small local banks”, he concluded.

Bridge over the Strait, “I hope construction will be completed within the year”

“The Superior Council of Public Works is an independent body made up of almost 100 university professors, engineers, architects, geologists, it has given the green light to the design with provisions to be followed in the executive phase”, said Salvini, commenting on the recent protests last weekend and the progress of the process for the bridge that will connect Calabria and Sicily. “Now there will be steps to CIPES and then the final opinion of the Court of Auditors, on which I do not allow myself to intervene, which will have to evaluate whether they can open the construction sites by the end of this year. Which I hope for, because there is a great desire and hunger for work”, he concluded speaking about the next steps in the process. Finally, regarding demonstrations of dissent, he observed: “As long as they are peaceful, they don’t crash or hurt, I’m a democrat and therefore they’re fine.”