Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini said Saturday that he was opposed to the idea
mooted by Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci of making it
obligatory for households to take out insurance to cover their
properties for damage caused by extreme weather events.
After this week's devastating flooding in Emilia Romagna and
Marche, Musumeci said that making house insurance obligatory was
likely as the State cannot afford to keep compensating people
for the impact of extreme-weather events, which are become more
frequent and more intense because of the climate crisis caused
by human greenhouse gas emissions.
But League leader Salvini said that such a measure would not
have his support.
"The State can give recommendations, this applies to insurance
too," Salvini said at an event staged by construction
association Confedilizia in Piacenza.
"It can give advice, but we do not live in a State that imposes
things, where the State forbids or obliges us to do things".
League MP Stefano Candiani also spoke out against the idea.
"The state must incentivize citizens and businesses to take out
insurance with tax deductions or concessions or whatever and, at
the same time, it must continue to invest in making the
territory safe," he told 'Affaritaliani.it'.
"If it is just a matter of taking out insurance, it effectively
becomes a tax in favour of the insurance companies and it is
certainly not a proposal that can be agreed to and accepted".
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