Italy’s Meloni Grants Home Renovation Amnesty in EU Vote Run-up
- Move on Friday helps partner Salvini fulfill electoral pledge
- Italian governments often grant building code amnesties
Giorgia Meloni, right, and Matteo Salvini.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government is granting an amnesty for unsanctioned home renovation projects, helping a coalition ally fulfill an electoral pledge in the run-up to next month’s European Union election.
“This is a common sense decree,” Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday, claiming the measure will free local governments from complicated bureaucracy.