(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 17 - A controversial amendment to increase the salary of unelected ministers to equal the pay of members of the cabinet who are also lawmakers has been scrapped from the draft budget.
    The revised amendment currently being discussed in the Lower House's budget commission only provides for ministers and undersecretaries and those not residing in Rome to be reimbursed of travel costs, setting up a fund worth an annual 500,000 euros starting in 2025. (ANSA).