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Italian MPs are voting on a new law that campaigners say undermines the country’s climate commitments, while doing nothing to reduce its high number of traffic fatalities. Around 3,000 people are killed on Italy’s roads every year, at an above-EU-average rate of 52 lives lost per million inhabitants. Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Lega party and transport minister in the Meloni administration, has proposed a reform of the traffic road code. It’s ostensibly aimed at making Italy’s roads safer. But the Clean Cities campaign group – backed by Europe’s Transport & Environment (T&E) collec…

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