Politics · Italy · 6 hrs ago
Italy’s centre-left sets out 21 proposals ahead of budget law
Italy’s broad centre-left grouping presented a 21-point platform ahead of the country’s budget law.
The proposals span areas including wages, health care, pensions and public services.
The grouping calls for a minimum wage law and equal maternity and paternity leave with full pay.
It also wants health spending to rise toward the European Union average and proposes changes to pensions and tax policy.
The platform calls for shared European investment and a review of EU budget rules, while also seeking support for industry, climate measures, education and local public transport.
It opposes giving regions more separate powers, saying this could widen territorial inequalities and weaken national cohesion.
The proposals set out the grouping’s priorities for the budget debate; no next steps are specified.
Italy’s expanded centre-left has set out 21 proposals in a document on the public finance planning framework ahead of the budget law.
The proposals cover areas including healthcare, work, pensions, housing, education and climate policy.
They include a minimum-wage law, equal parental leave with full pay and higher healthcare spending.
The document also calls for reform of European fiscal rules and common investment borrowing.
It opposes differentiated autonomy, saying it could widen regional inequalities.
- Who
- Italy’s expanded centre-left.
- What
- It set out 21 policy proposals in a document on the public finance planning framework.
- When
- The document was reported on 13 October 2026; the date it was issued is not stated.
- Where
- Italy.
- Why
- The document sets out the centre-left’s policy priorities ahead of the budget law.
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- Proposals
- 21
- Minimum wage
- A law to combat in-work poverty
- Parental leave
- Equal maternity and paternity leave with 100 per cent pay
- Healthcare
- Spending to be progressively aligned with the EU average
- Regional policy
- Calls for abandoning differentiated autonomy
What people are saying
a law on the minimum wage to combat in-work poverty
equal maternity and paternity leave with 100 per cent pay
a comprehensive review of the stability pact
increase healthcare spending, progressively aligning it with the EU average
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