Meloni's cabinet approves new security package

Premier Giorgia Meloni's cabinet on

Tuesday gave the green light to a bill containing the latest in

a series of packages aimed at boosting security and it also

nominated Guido Stazi, the secretary general of Italy's

antitrust authority, the new president of stock-market regulator

CONSOB.

The security bill aims to further crack down on so-called

'maranza' gangs of violent youths.

A previous package approved in February also targetted these

youth gangs, with a ban on knives with blades longer than 8cm

being carried outside the home, without a legitimate reason,

punishable by prison terms of between six months and three

years.

Stazi's nomination ends a long impasse over CONSOB's new boss,

which has had an interim president since Paolo Savona left the

position in March.

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