Morning papers unpacked the 29-billion deviation approved the previous evening, detailing a 5% tax on pay rises, a 65% home bonus, an Irpef cut for middle incomes and funds for energy and defence, with Giorgetti forecasting a 3.4% deficit, 0.8% growth and debt at 138.5%.
Trump eased friction with Rome, calling his rapport with Meloni very good and dismissing the diesel-block threat as a joke.
Attention then moved east: Emirati prosecutors said the FlyDubai co-pilot planned a terrorist crash with the emergency axe, NATO jets scrambled over a drone intrusion that briefly closed Lithuanian airspace, and Moscow struck Kyiv’s North Bridge while urging diplomats and foreigners to leave ahead of massive retaliatory strikes.
By evening Spain dominated, with some 50 housing marches, a human tide in Madrid waving keys after Sánchez’s decree defeat, clashes in Valencia and union calls for a general strike.