Fuel prices climb as excise tax discount fails to appear
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Diesel has breached its price cap, reaching €2.25 a litre as a long-awaited discount on excise duties failed to materialise. No official decree for the relief was published, leaving consumers to pay for a tax cut that exists in political promises but not in the law. It is a poorly timed oversight; inflation is now estimated to have erased 35 years of wage growth, leaving hundreds of thousands at risk of eviction.
The blast furnaces at the Ilva steel plant are being extinguished today for a final tapping. The closure arrives alongside a grim investigation into the death of a worker at the site; inspectors found that the man fell through a missing section of flooring, and there are claims that elements of the crime scene were moved.
The national football federation may soon be placed under external administration. A dispute over whether Giovanni Malagò was eligible to become president has left the Olympic Committee deciding if it must appoint a commissioner to run the game instead.