A round table on the dispute over tax revenues and insularity that the Minister of Finance Giancarlo Giorgetti will specifically convene with Sardinia by September and in which the President of the Region Alessandra Todde will personally participate.

Yesterday, the minister met with the five special-statute regions, including Sardinia's vice president and budget councilor, Giuseppe Meloni.

Todde described the meeting as "positive" and provided an opportunity to reiterate Sardinia's demands: "The government owes us €200 million this year alone from the taxes we collect for the state, and a total of €1.7 billion that has accumulated over the past few years." These are all untransferred funds, which the Region appealed in February 2025 , and for which, pending the ruling, efforts are being made to reach a mutually agreed-upon solution.

These are "significant" figures, the president emphasizes, "to finance citizen services, infrastructure, environmental protection, and to plan development and redevelopment projects."

Todde considers the minister's willingness to establish a specific forum for Sardinia to be "positive": "I will personally participate," he announced, "to reach a shared solution on revenue and address the issue of insularity. These are rights we must defend by maintaining a dialogic and institutional approach in our relations with the State."

(Unioneonline)