Five Star Movement criticises Italy’s 2027 budget gaming provisions
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Five Star Movement deputies submitted an alternative report opposing Italy’s 2027 budget during its review by the Chamber of Deputies’ Social Affairs Committee. Citing Unimpresa estimates, they said gambling and betting provisions could generate about €2.515bn over 2027–2029, including about €952m in 2027, and criticised the absence of a comprehensive prevention strategy.
Italy’s Five Star Movement has submitted an alternative report opposing the 2027 budget during a parliamentary committee review, criticising its gambling provisions. Deputies Marianna Ricciardi, Di Lauro, Sportiello and Quartini took part in the submission to the Chamber of Deputies’ Social Affairs Committee.
Estimates by Unimpresa’s research centre put revenue from the gambling and betting provisions at about €2.515bn from 2027 to 2029, including about €952m in 2027. The estimates cover additional tax receipts, concession payments and extraordinary payments.
The signatories compared the projected receipts with the health minister’s funding requests for the national health service, which they said had been effectively halved.
The deputies said the budget relied on gambling revenue without a comprehensive measure to prevent problem gambling and addiction. They said ten gambling articles in the budget were intended to encourage further gambling, while no measures addressed restoring the autonomy and full operation of the health ministry’s observatory dedicated to the issue. The movement called for gambling-derived revenue to be eliminated and a national prevention strategy to be introduced.