Overview
- The Senate cleared the Transizione 5.0 decree via a confidence vote, advancing the golden power reform to the Chamber of Deputies ahead of the January 20 deadline.
- The amendment recognizes the exclusive remit of the ECB and EU competition authorities on banking, insurance and merger control, pausing national intervention while their reviews are open.
- Economic and financial security becomes an explicit criterion the government may weigh when deciding on special powers, preserving a residual safeguard.
- Legal and market analysts expect takeover bids to face longer and costlier timelines because any national decision can occur only after EU procedures conclude.
- The change answers a European Commission formal notice and aims to reduce infringement risk following contentious cases such as the government’s block of UniCredit’s offer for Banco BPM.