3.1-3.7 homes in Italy affected by EU Green home directive

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 19 - Some 3.1-3-7 million homes in Italy will be affected by a proposed European Union directive on Green homes which Italy is trying to stop because it allegedly puts an intolerable financial burden on home-owners, Brussels sources said Thursday.
    Between 3.1 and 3.7 million buildings are to be renovated in Italy by 2033 according to the proposal for a directive on the energy efficiency of buildings currently being examined by the European Parliament, the sources said.
    The estimates were made on the basis of the European Commission's figures.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightist Brothers of Italy (FdI) party on Friday filed a resolution in the House aimed at stopping the EU directive on Green homes that it said would hit some nine million Italian home owners who might be asked to pay large sums to boost their residences' energy efficiency in the next 10 years.
    "The home is sacred and can't be touched," said FdI House Whip Tommaso Foti.
    "Brothers of Italy guards against the European Union's attempt to foist on Italy, with the directive on boosting energy efficiency, a camouflaged property tax that damages the rights of the owners," he said.
    Other majority parties the League and Forza Italia (FI) backed FdI's move. (ANSA).