Italy: right-wing coalition upholding a liberal labour program while seeking more pension system flexibility

Italy’s latest right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni (nativist, Eurosceptic), which won the nation’s parliamentary elections on 25 September and is expected to form a government by the end of October, is seeking to lower social security charges and taxes on salaries, augment labour market flexibility, scrap the citizenship income measure, and reform the unemployment insurance system. This tri-party coalition’s ideologically liberal programmes do intend however to leave room for some concessions to be made towards the currently highly restrictive domestic pensions system.