Milan, 8 June (LaPresse) – ‘I won’t comment on Messina; we’ll respond with actions, not statements. The figures speak for themselves.’ So said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini, responding to Intesa Sanpaolo CEO Carlo Messina, who had said on the subject of windfall profits that an agreement had already been reached last year and that ‘it isn’t renegotiated every year’. ‘What we are working on,’ added the League leader, "without making any declarations, because we will speak through actions and proposals, concerns the fact that the major Italian banks, with the fundamental contribution of the government and the Italian people, are making profits that are unprecedented in the history of banking. Since we have been in government, just two have made 54 billion in profits. I am neither a ‘Guevarist’, nor Venezuelan, nor a socialist, but since these profits are partly guaranteed by the state and the citizens, we will work to ensure that a small portion of these profits helps Italy. It is nothing punitive. You know better than I do which are the 10 banks making the biggest profits; we are not geniuses inventing something out of thin air.”