Differentiated autonomy bad for North too says PD's Schlein

(ANSA) - GIFFONI VALLE PIANA, JUL 26 - The government's law introducing 'differentiated autonomy' to enable regions to request more power over how the tax revenues collected in their areas are spent is bad for the North of Italy as well as the South, Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein said on Friday.
    Opposition parties have started collecting signatures for a referendum on abolishing the reform, saying will worsen Italy's North-South divide.
    But Schlein believes the wealthier regions of the North have grounds to be against it as well as poorer ones in the south.
    "We are very happy that the campaign has started to stop differentiated autonomy, a law that splits the country in two, when the inequalities that have increased between North and South need to be mended," Schlein said at the Giffoni Film Festival for children in Campania.
    "But it is a reform that also hurts the North because it is absurd to imagine being able to have 20 different energy policies when a common, European one would be able to lower bills for both businesses and families". (ANSA).