The Italian government has no plans to adopt a decree to expand its special powers under 'golden power' to protect strategic assets in the financial sector.

Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said this.According to rumors, the government is working on new measures to have a greater say in the Ops launched by UniCredit on Banco BPM. "There is no decree," Giorgetti told reporters in Parliament.

(Giuseppe Fonte, reporting Andrea Mandalà, editing Francesca Piscioneri)