OK to national gas production says Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 9 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday the government had approved more national production of natural gas because "the time of nos at all costs is over.
    "What Italy needs must be done and we want to help firms in difficulty", she told the parliamentary caucuses of her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party.
    Meloni said another "priority issue" was curbing electricity and gas price hikes amid the energy emergency sparked by the Ukraine war.
    "In two weeks," she said, "we have found 30 billion euros to ease and cover the cost of bills".
    But she added that "the game will be played above all at the European level," with the approval of a long-awaited pan-European gas price cap for which Italy has lobbied hard.
    (ANSA).