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Elly Schlein, the secretary of the PD, announces a counter-move to bring healthcare spending to 7% of GDP and criticizes the Meloni government for its inability to address the needs of citizens and fundamental issues such as the dignity of work and public education. #Italia2026 #EllySchlein #Sanità (translated)

Marco Setaccioli challenged Marco Travaglio's calculations on European and Russian military spending, stating that Travaglio had indicated 450 billion euros for Europe and 150 for Russia and had argued that Russia had reason to fear Europe, which had invaded it four times in the last 200 years. According to Setaccioli, in the current year Russia would have spent around 17 trillion rubles on defense, equivalent to 181 billion euros, a figure indicated, according to him, by most analysts. He noted that the nominal comparison did not take purchasing power into account: applying indices developed by specialized research centers, Russian spending would rise to 574 billion international dollars, compared to about 700 billion for the entire EU. He added that the EU would have three and a half times the population of Russia and a GDP nine times greater. Setaccioli argued that the Russian federal budget did not show all military costs. He cited studies by economist Craig Kennedy, according to which part of the spending would be financed through subsidized loans and would thus remain on the banks' balance sheets. He also recalled an investigation by Dozhd', which, according to him, had documented pressures on private companies to hire people before signing contracts with the military and to supplement salaries with corporate funds. He added that at least three militias would be linked to Gazprom, which would cover part of the costs. For these reasons, he dismissed as false the claim that Russia spent less than the EU. Historically, Setaccioli criticized Travaglio's reconstruction, according to which the Napoleonic and Nazi invasions, along with interventions in Crimea and support for the Bolsheviks, would justify Russian fears toward Europe. Setaccioli listed Russian troop interventions in Poland in 1939, Finland in 1939-1940, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania in 1940, Bulgaria in 1944, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Moldova in 1992, Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. He stated that there were no Russian regions occupied by European countries, while eight regions—one in Moldova, two in Georgia, and five in Ukraine—would be under Russian control. Finally, Setaccioli accused Travaglio of presenting a selective and misleading reconstruction to make Russia appear not dangerous, portray Europe as a threat, and argue that rearmament was unnecessary and risky. In his view, that reasoning could legitimize a potential Russian attack on Europe and constituted a form of collaborationism. #Russia #Europa #Difesa (translated)

Andrea Gilli had written that military support for Ukraine had amounted to about 3 billion euros so far for the period 2022-2026, which is about 800 million a year, against a public spending of 1,100 billion. He had compared this figure to the 1.8 billion euros that, according to him, Italians paid each year for the Rai license fee. He had specified that the license fee was an income, not an expenditure, but that it directly covered the costs of Rai and was paid directly by the Italians. Gilli had left it to the readers to draw their own conclusions. #Ucraina #SpesaPubblica #AiutiMilitari (translated)

While Italians are strangled by high fuel prices, the lack of affordable housing, skyrocketing grocery prices, and low-wage jobs, the Meloni government invests in arms spending and considers the electoral law that has kept Parliament blocked for weeks. This was stated by Laura Boldrini, a member of the Democratic Party and President of the Permanent Committee of the Chamber on Human Rights in the World, at the start of the demonstration "The Main Road" in Rome. #Lavoro #Pace #Welfare (translated)

Fiscal policy should reconstruct margins of maneuver and safeguard debt sustainability through credible medium-term frameworks (such as the EU fiscal framework), while protecting investments that promote growth and essential social spending, reducing risks of external contagion, and improving the quality and efficiency of public spending and revenues. This is stated in the statement by the Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, to the International Monetary and Financial Committee of the IMF. #BCE #Inflazione #Energia (translated)

"The fiscal policy should - Giorgetti emphasizes - rebuild the margins of maneuver and safeguard the sustainability of the debt through credible medium-term frameworks (such as the EU's fiscal framework), while at the same time protecting investments that promote growth and essential social spending, reducing the risks of external contagion, and improving the quality and efficiency of public spending and revenues." "The fiscal policy should - Giorgetti emphasizes - rebuild the margins of maneuver and safeguard the sustainability of the debt through credible medium-term frameworks (such as the EU's fiscal framework), while at the same time protecting investments that promote growth and essential social spending, reducing the risks of external contagion, and improving the quality and efficiency of public spending and revenues." #Economia #Sostenibilità #IntelligenzaArtificiale (translated)

Paola had anticipated that the fall had gone viral and that that evening the episode with Carmen, Valeria, and the other housemates would be funny. She had also written that the arguments about expenses had fueled tensions, especially between Guendalina and Jonathan, who was accused of manipulating the younger ones. In the post, she had finally mentioned the public vote. #Mattino5 #LaCaduta #Televoto (translated)

The increase in the costs of bills and daily expenses has led four million Italians to reduce food spending, contributing to a growing rate of food poverty that now affects more than six million people in the country, according to a report by ActionAid on the occasion of World Food Day. #PovertàAlimentare #Cibo #Economia (translated)

The Italian financial plan provides 5 billion euros allocated to families and social spending, with a strong increase in resources for defense compared to healthcare, while the government awaits the outcome of negotiations with the EU on the margins of flexibility for military spending. #Manovra #Economia #Difesa (translated)

The 2027 Budget includes a package of measures worth 23.5 billion euros, with aid for families, a possible cut in income tax, investments in defense, and a significant contribution from banks to support social spending and economic growth. #Manovra2027 #SostegnoFamiglie #InvestimentiPubblici (translated)

It is right to sanction Putin, who is the aggressor, but Europe was not born to bet on military victories against a military superpower: instead of sending weapons indefinitely, we should send negotiators. The United States is making a fortune doing business with Putin: it is an irresponsible deal, while here we risk a world war at home. Conte adds: “This will lead to a division in Europe and revive dangerous nationalisms, rather we should commit to a European defense with joint investments and substantial savings in spending; that 800 billion for rearmament should be redirected towards growth, towards an Agency for artificial intelligence that provides rules and policies to train workers, towards a housing plan that guarantees young people the ability to stay, towards infrastructure that does not involve a bridge over the strait, towards a new Pnrr for renewable energies and healthcare.” #GiuseppeConte #ConsiglioEuropeo #Ucraina (translated)

Riccardo Ricciardi wrote that the woman would go to Europe the next day to obtain spending margins for the electoral campaign, instead of looking for answers to the problems of the moment. He claimed that she would do so even at the cost of bringing the country to the catastrophe of war. https://t.co/Kd5HVJ5Xno #Europa #CampagnaElettorale #ProblemiSociali (translated)

Most countries are considering increasing spending instead of tightening their belts. However, the various overlapping crises push in the opposite direction. Thus, "most countries are considering increasing spending instead of tightening their belts," Valdes emphasized at a press conference in Bangkok, where the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank are taking place. #Ucraina #debitoPubblico #FMI (translated)

The author wrote that the family had gathered at home and was devising plans to make everyone argue, after consuming all the groceries, and had foreseen that chaos would erupt. He accompanied the post with the hashtag #GFVIP. #GFVIP https://t.co/926z8M0Do0 #famiglia #piani #devasto (translated)

In the budget document of Campo Largo, Elly Schlein stated that this is the first draft of the electoral program, while the five parties of the alliance have agreed on 21 points, including a rejection of the increase in military spending proposed by the M5S. #Politica #CampoLargo #SpesaMilitare (translated)