Lega calls for the establishment of a fund worth 2 billion euros to compensate businesses.
Concerned that Italy could unilaterally ban skiing at Christmas, the presidents of the northern Italian regions, including the South Tyrolean governor Arno Kompatscher, asked for a meeting with the government in Rome. The President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, reported at a press conference about the anti-Covid requirements for the Christmas season, which the government wants to take from December 3rd.
The presidents of the northern Italian regions reacted to Health Minister Roberto Speranza, who believes that a ski ban in his country during the Christmas season is “inevitable”. Infrastructure Minister Paola De Micheli shares this view. “With over 800 Covid 19 deaths per day in Italy, the ski facilities must remain closed until the end of this year,” said the minister, according to media reports on Wednesday
An opening of the ski slopes while the second epidemic wave is still going on would be “unreasonable,” warned Agostino Miozzo, coordinator of the scientific committee (CTS) that advises the government on coronavirus matters. Miozzo demanded a Europe-wide ban on skiing holidays.
The opposition Lega called for a two billion euro fund to be set up to compensate businesses that suffer losses as a result of the ski ban. The Lega called the government's plans to introduce a ski ban over the Christmas period “devastating”. “The winter tourists will go to Austria or Switzerland,” warned the Lega representatives in a press release.
