{"id":432959,"date":"2025-07-22T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/07\/22\/concessioni-balneari-lue-stoppa-il-governo-e-scrive-allitalia-obiettivo-soluzione-costruttiva\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:48:43","slug":"eu-challenges-governments-beach-concession-plan-writes-to-italy-the-goal-is-a-constructive-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/22\/eu-challenges-governments-beach-concession-plan-writes-to-italy-the-goal-is-a-constructive-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"EU challenges government&#8217;s beach concession plan, writes to Italy: &#8216;The goal is a constructive solution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; <strong>Beach concessions: The government is stumbling over the legislative text <\/strong>drafted&nbsp;in an attempt to resolve an issue that has been dragging on for years and has reached its most delicate\u2014and perhaps decisive\u2014moment with the ruling by the European Court of Justice.&nbsp;Automatic renewal, without competitive bidding,&nbsp;is no longer allowed, and Italian authorities are considering the possibility&nbsp;of compensating those denied the&nbsp;renewal of permits for the use of public coastal property. However, this choice would put Italy in violation of competition rules, to the point that<strong> the&nbsp;European Commission, on July 7, sent a letter to the government urging it to correct the decree <\/strong>designed to resolve the situation.&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that a letter has been sent&#8221;&nbsp;to &#8220;<strong>ensure that a constructive<\/strong> <strong>solution<\/strong> to the problem is&nbsp;reached,&#8221; <strong>Thomas Regnier<\/strong>, spokesperson for the EU executive, said today (July 22), responding to a question during the daily press briefing. These clarifications confirm at least two things: the beach concessions game is still open and far from being closed, and Rome and Brussels are working towards an agreed solution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;If Italy were to continue to&nbsp;breach the rules on beach concessions, the EU executive would have&nbsp;to initiate an infringement procedure, an eventuality that both the government and the EU Commission would like to avoid. For Giorgia Meloni and the majority, such a measure would be a severe blow to their image.&nbsp;For the College of Commissioners, it would mean embarking on a confrontational path with unclear boundaries, which has always been a sensitive issue for the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, a &#8220;constructive <strong>solution with our Italian friends&#8221;<\/strong> is&nbsp;preferred and preferable, Regnier continues, confirming Brussels&#8217; intentions to meet Meloni and help the government to develop a measure in line with EU law. &#8220;The dialogue with the Italian authorities is continuing&#8221; for this very purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of compensation fails to convince. The European Commission is in contact with Rome regarding legislation on the issue, to avoid initiating proceedings and potential clashes with the country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":432951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26430,26180,31257,26229,25830],"class_list":["post-432959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-governo-meloni-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432960,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432959\/revisions\/432960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}