Overview
- Government leaders met at Palazzo Chigi and moved to prorogue the roughly €0.17 per litre diesel excise cut for a few days to avoid an immediate spike at the pump.
- Official MIMIT data show national averages above €2 per litre for petrol and diesel with higher motorway averages and isolated spikes such as Supreme Diesel at €3.159 per litre on the A22.
- Ministers say the short extension is temporary and will be followed by a second‑stage plan that narrows support to low‑income households and specific exposed professions like truckers, taxi drivers and the self‑employed.
- Rome has joined five other EU finance ministries in asking the Irish presidency to put windfall‑profit taxation for oil firms on the mid‑September agenda while Brussels has reminded states they retain taxing competence.
- Consumer groups warn blanket excise cuts are losing effect and say narrowing aid risks wider price knock‑on effects through transport and logistics, a political split that leaves funding and beneficiary rules unresolved.