By Giuseppe Fonte and Giselda Vagnoni
Reuters
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
ROME -- Italian lawmakers have revived attempts to establish that the central bank's $300 billion in gold reserves belong to the state, presenting a proposal to parliament.
All five lawmakers who signed the proposal, which was tabled as an amendment to next year's budget, are senators from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party.
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The Bank of Italy sits on the world's third-largest national gold stockpile, behind only the United States and Germany. Its 2,452 metric tons of gold are equivalent to around 13% of national output.
Unlike Britain or Spain, Italy has refused to sell off gold during financial downturns, retaining its reserves even through the 2008 debt crisis. Central banks generally accumulate gold to hedge against adverse scenarios and preserve confidence in the financial system.
Around 1,100 tons of the Bank of Italy's gold are stored in a vault beneath its headquarters at Palazzo Koch in Rome. A similar portion is held in the United States, while smaller amounts are kept in Britain and Switzerland.
Politicians of all parties have called in the past 20 years to clarify ownership of the gold and then sell it to cut Italy's public debt, which totals more than 3 trillion euros ($3.48 trillion) and is predicted by the Italian Treasury to peak at 137.4% of GDP next year. ...
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