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One cannot say that the stop has come as a surprise: Italy’s transport minister, Vice Prime Minister and Lega boss Matteo Salvini had never left a doubt as to what he thinks of the planned and with Brussels in 2022 driving bans for diesel vehicles with exhaust gas standard): nothing. “Such bans are out of the question,” he had explained several times in the past few weeks. Now the Trump fan Salvini has prevailed: The responsible transport commission of the parliament has first sunk the driving bans. “A decision of common sense,” said the Minister of Transport, who generally describes the ecological transition planned by the EU as “disaster” and therefore does not want to know anything about a burner ban.
