Budget measures to be confirmed and we'll do more - Salvini

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 21 - Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini has said the measures "in place this year with the budget law will be confirmed and, depending on the resources available, we will do even more", in an interview published by 'ilSussidiario.net', ahead of a speech he is set to deliver on Wednesday at the ongoing Rimini Meeting of 'Friendship among Peoples' organized by Catholic activist group Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation, CL).
    He added that a tax wedge cut in the budget law "will be reconfirmed also in 2025".
    Salvini went on to say during the interview that "the left in politics, in newsrooms and in courts must resign themselves to the fact that the government will work together at least until 2027".
    The transport minister also stressed that the government would push forward plans to build a bridge between mainland Italy and Sicily across the Strait of Messina.
    "Important studies, including one by OpenEconomics, have stressed the positive impact on GDP, with benefits on GDP of over 23 billion that will have an effect on the whole country, from North to South.
    "Only in Italy the left opposes infrastructures and public works awaited for decades, while the whole world is building bridges to unite, work and reduce pollution", Salvini told 'ilSussidiario.net'.
    "I will proceed with determination", he said.
    The project to build a bridge across the strait has been considered by several past Italian governments but has never taken off due to several factors, above all the cost. (ANSA).