The cabinet's overnight approval of the 26-billion-euro 2027 budget dominated morning editions, detailed as a middle-class cut with the 33% Irpef bracket extended to 55,000 euros, a 100-euro yearly fund for newborns and a health voucher for the elderly.
Attention then moved to Toledo, where the death toll rose to 69 while investigators questioned a green light given despite a stalled convoy; one of three missing Italians was found alive.
Midday coverage turned to Christine Lagarde's resignation from the ECB effective 7 February 2027 and to the Cassation ruling confirming the shutdown of ex-Ilva's blast furnaces in Taranto on health grounds.
By evening all outlets shifted to Brcko, where an Italian Army helicopter on the Eufor Althea mission crashed, killing two soldiers and two Red Cross operators and injuring eleven, with Mattarella and Meloni expressing grief as causes remained under verification.