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RECOVERY TO THE COUNT? A CIOFECA PRACTICALLY, ACCORDING TO GENTILONI

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CASINI IN ACTION

THE PACKAGE OF COUNT

THE MESSAGE OF MELONI ADDRESSED TO MATTARELLA

DEBATE IN THE LEAGUE

CENTER RIGHT UNITED

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VACCINES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ITALY

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INTERVENTION AND REPLY OF CONTE TO THE CHAMBER ON 18 JANUARY 2020:

Monday, January 18, 2021

The President Conte made the Communications on the current political situation to the Chamber of Deputies.

Dear President, Dear Deputies, Dear Deputies,

At the beginning of this government experience, on 9 September 2019, I prefigured in this House a clear political project for the country.

I immediately pointed out that the program on which I was about to ask Parliament for confidence was not resolved, could not be resolved, in a mere listing of heterogeneous proposals nor in a sterile summation of the positions taken by each of the majority political forces.

Even then I was aware that an alliance between political formations coming from histories, experiences, cultures of different origins, which in the past had also sometimes even bitterly opposed each other, could only arise on the basis of two fundamental discriminants:
a) the firm anchoring to constitutional values ​​(I mention only the primacy of the person, work, formal and substantial equality, environmental protection);
b) and then the second fundamental discriminant, the solid pro-European vocation of our country, in order to allow Italy to return to a leading role in the European scenario and to help the European Union recover the role of leadership it deserves in the international geo-political context.

From the moment the government program was drawn up, I have worked, together with the delegations of the majority political forces – the delegates will remember – to outline the prospect of a broad and courageous reform plan.

I then affirmed that that political project would mark the beginning of a new – which we still hoped for and still trust – decisive reforming season, oriented towards building a more equitable and more inclusive society, capable of combining the primary objective of economic growth, of relaunch and modernization with the essential needs of sustainability, social and territorial cohesion, always within the horizon of the full development of the human person.

Even today, after more than a year, looking at those twenty-nine programmatic points, I see that in the country project that we shared and outlined together, albeit in complex circumstances and conditions, there was vision.

There was a strong ideal drive.

There was a clear investment of trust.

At the beginning of 2020 the conditions for the implementation of that project became complicated, they had to deal with the hurricane of the pandemic, which deeply upset our society, our habits of life, our collective destiny.

The pandemic has forced us to redefine our priorities, to rethink our development model, the dynamics of our relationships.

We are facing an epochal challenge. We are measuring ourselves against the need to define the reconstructive lines of a society marked – again – by even primordial fears, more often known by generations of the past, fears linked to the risk of losing essential goods, such as life and health, and to go back to feeling deeply fragile.
Some of our well-rooted certainties were suddenly questioned.

"Politics" has been forced to compete almost daily – perhaps as never before – with science and technology, in the difficulty of offering effective and rapid responses in the course of an overwhelming health emergency and a severe economic recession.

Even our most consolidated legal knowledge – and I say this as a jurist – has been severely questioned. By virtue of the state of emergency we have been forced to introduce – I remember it first in the West, then followed by all other countries – restrictive measures on the rights of the person, operating very delicate balances of principles and constitutional rights.

In these dramatic months, even in the face of unprecedented complexity, this majority has shown great responsibility, reaching – certainly even with difficulty – convergence of views and decisiveness of action, even in the most critical passages.

We have cultivated a constant and close dialogue with all institutional levels, starting from the regional authorities up to the municipal ones, in the awareness that only by practicing the principle of "loyal cooperation" tirelessly it would have been possible to pursue effective intervention strategies, considering – a tacer d other – that the competences in health management are primarily entrusted to the Regions.

Not only.

The experience of the pandemic has strengthened, in the political forces that have loyally supported the Government, the awareness of the value of dialogue and of the dialectical confrontation between even distant positions, an unavoidable prerequisite for making the most right choices and for taking fundamental decisions, which – for the gravity of the hour – we certainly could not escape.

Have we always made the best choices? Have we always made the right decisions?

Each will express their evaluations. For my part, I can say that the Government has operated the delicate balances of the constitutional interests involved from time to time, with the utmost scruple and with the utmost attention, in the awareness of the consequences of immense importance that would be produced in the life of individuals and for the future of our community.

You see, if today, to you who are in this room and to the citizens who follow us from home, I can speak on behalf of the whole government with their heads held high, it is not for the arrogance of those who believe they have never made a mistake, but for the awareness of those who, together with the entire government team, have committed all their physical and intellectual energies to offer the best possible protection to the national community.

In the public debate that has arisen in recent months, there is also another element to be clarified.

Some believe the pandemic has overshadowed "politics".

I have already noted a little while ago that the dialogue between politics and science has intensified particularly.

In reality, never more than in this period has "politics" been called to fulfill its noblest mission, to make choices for the common good, some of which I would dare to say "tragic".

The choice of protecting health as a priority was "political", not only as a fundamental right of the person and primary interest of the community, but also in the awareness that only – and this was an intuition that later became a deep-rooted conviction – protecting that primary asset could be preserved the productive fabric of the country.

All "political" was the choice to allocate – also by resorting to repeated and progressive budget variances – huge resources (more than 100 billion euros in terms of net debt) to support workers, businesses, families and fragile categories, with refreshments proportionate to the losses suffered.

These interventions – attention – have allowed us to erect a social and economic protection belt that has also been appreciated by illustrious economists, such as the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.

Strongly "political" was the determination with which the Government, first of all European governments, asked the Union to respond to the crisis in a radically different way than in the past and to promote expansionary policies, financed by debt instruments common, aimed at achieving shared strategies.

The historic agreement on the Next generation EU program, for the achievement of which Italy has had a propulsive and decisive role, spending itself in every location, at every formal and informal level, not only allows us to dispose of 209 billion euros, but it has given European politics an irreversible turning point, inaugurating a new course, capable of profoundly changing the paradigms of economic policies and the very face of the European Union.

Isn't this the result, also eminently political, of the pro-European choice that represented one of the founding reasons for the government alliance?

Still "political" was the choice of accompanying emergency measures with structural interventions, capable – in the medium and long term – of generating virtuous effects.

Even in the most complex moments of the health and economic emergency we have never given up – despite the well-known structural weaknesses accumulated over the last twenty years – to lay the foundations for the relaunch of the country. For example, I recall that already with the budget law for 2020, the Government:

– introduced the cut in the tax wedge for the benefit of workers (later made structural), the cut in the health superticket and the bonuses for nurseries, in particular for medium-low incomes;

– in support of private investments, we confirmed the main building bonuses, to give breath to the construction sector, which has been in severe crisis for years, and restore a new face to our cities;

– we have allocated important resources for environmental sustainability and urban regeneration and I neglect all other interventions.

We immediately took up the challenge of transforming difficulties into opportunities.

Aware of the structural deficiencies of our country, we have laid the foundations for a decisive relaunch of growth by creating an environment more favorable to private investments, more inclined to research and innovation, more attentive to the construction and strengthening of skills.

The Government's response to these challenges is visible since the decree-laws issued during the early stages of the health emergency and reaches the measures adopted with the budget law for 2021, also of a structural nature.

I am referring, for example, to the more than 21 billion, to be spread between 2020 and 2026, of available resources, in order to strengthen the hospital and territorial care network, enhance medical-nursing staff, hire health personnel and invest in training. of doctors and nurses.

For schools and universities, we have further strengthened the interventions on staffing and digitization, investments in school and university construction and research, as well as having expanded the no-tax area for university students and school staff.

A major reform will start next July: the single monthly allowance for each dependent child up to 21 years of age, which will involve approximately 12.5 million children and teenagers. It is not an isolated intervention, because it is part of a wider framework of interventions, aimed at relieving the economic pressure on families and reducing the burden of care that weighs in particular on women, stimulating – in perspective – also female employment.

We have promoted the introduction of robust incentives for private investments, favoring some fundamental guidelines, thus expressing a clear strategic vision: the green and digital transition, female and youth employment.

This is why we have further strengthened the "Transition 4.0" package, with particular attention to supporting investments in new digital technologies, and we have introduced – starting with the "Relaunch" decree and then with various improvements – the 110% super bonus for energy efficiency and anti-seismic upgrading of buildings.

We have zeroed the contributions for the recruitment of young people under the age of 35 throughout Italy for 3 years and we have introduced a total deduction for the recruitment of female workers.

For the first time, we have introduced and brought into full operation, up to 2029, the advantageous taxation system for all companies operating in the South, with a 30% cut in social security contributions for the first 3 years and then to decrease.

I would also like to recall two very significant measures which here too have expressed and express a clear strategic vision regarding the relaunch of our productive fabric and the greater effectiveness, productivity and competitiveness of our companies.

I refer to the PMI Patrimonio Fund, managed by Invitalia, which favors the capitalization of small and medium-sized enterprises that invest in their own relaunch, and the Intended Assets, managed by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, which can contribute not only to support, but also to growth of companies with turnover exceeding 50 million euros.

Also in view of the great challenge represented by the Recovery Plan, we wanted to clearly redefine the regulatory framework to support public investments, in particular infrastructural ones.

We prepared the ground with the “simplifications” decree-law, we defined an accelerated path to carry out the various public works and we intervened to redefine the liability regime of the public administration. These are two important goals, both the one concerning the redefinition of the tax liability, and the one concerning a more precise delimitation of the crime of abuse of office.

We have therefore created the conditions for officials and persons in charge of public services to operate in a framework of greater legal certainty, according to a logic of greater efficiency.

We would not have been able to achieve all this if there had not been sharing, collaboration and responsibility in each, each political force.

Despite its tragic nature, the experience of the pandemic has given us back a strong sense of unity, raised the tenor of our alliance and strengthened the reasons for our being together.

In this perspective, the sense of responsibility also manifested by the opposition forces was fundamental, which – despite the clear differentiation, the political dialectic of the different positions they have taken – have contributed, have contributed, to address some critical passages. It must be publicly acknowledged. On several occasions you have voted on the budget gap, you have put forward concrete and qualifying proposals, some of which have been strongly accepted by the majority forces.

Also thanks to this dialogue with the opposition, with you opposition forces, we have strengthened, on the occasion of the last budget law, the support measures, for example for self-employed workers and VAT numbers.

Precisely in the most critical moments in the history of a country we must rediscover the noble and lofty reasons for politics, those that inspire the most authentic choices, the reasons that move the commitment of those who believe that politics is essentially a service for the national community: not politics as the exercise of power, nor politics as a mere management of the contingent, but politics as thought and action oriented towards man, his needs, his expectations.

We cannot offer mediocre answers to society emerging from the collective drama of the pandemic, as if nothing had happened.

After going through this bend in human history that our generation happened to experience, nothing will be the same as before.

The government must live up to this lofty task.

Unfortunately, at the height of a few weeks of very bitter media attacks, I have to say sometimes even broken up, some exponents of Italia Viva anticipated and then confirmed that they want to get away from this common path.

This was followed by an abstention by the ministers of Italia Viva at the time of the approval, in the Council of Ministers, of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, although there was a clear contribution, appreciated contribution to the improvement of the draft that was originally presented, there was this abstention substantially or in any case mainly motivated by the fact that this new draft does not include the resources of the Mes, which however, as you know, is a financing instrument that has nothing to do with the Recovery Fund.

Finally, a press conference was held on 13 January during which the resignations of the ministers were then confirmed.

Thus a crisis has opened that today must find its own clarification here, in this context, according to the principles of transparency of the comparison and, if you allow me, the linearity of action that has characterized my mandate up to now and which, moreover, are essential principles of a parliamentary democracy.

It is a crisis that takes place in a crucial phase of our country, when the pandemic is still in full swing and many families who are watching us at the moment are suffering from the loss of loved ones.

I confess, I must say, that I feel a certain discomfort. I am here today not to announce new support measures for citizens and businesses, not to illustrate the latest, improved draft of the Recovery Plan, but to try to explain a crisis that I imagine citizens of, but, I must confess, myself, I see no plausible basis.

Our energies should all and always be concentrated on urgent responses to the crisis that is gripping the country, while on the other hand, in the eyes of those who look at us, of citizens in particular, they appear dissipated in controversial and often sterile counterpoints, completely incomprehensible to those who every day is measured with the fear of illness, with the specter of impoverishment, with social unease, with the anguish of the future.

We all risk losing contact with reality.

Was there really a need to open a political crisis at this stage?

No. And, in fact, the ministers and government allies who have been able to closely follow the events of recent weeks in detail are witnesses to the fact that we have made every effort, with the utmost willingness, to prevent this crisis , now latent, could explode.

Despite continuous claims, increasingly pressing criticism, continuous relaunches, however, not coincidentally concentrated on clearly divisive issues with respect to the various sensibilities of the majority forces.

This crisis has opened a deep wound within the government structure and among the majority forces, but it has caused – and this is even more serious – also profound dismay in the country.

This crisis risks producing considerable damage and not only because it has already raised the spread, but even more because it has attracted the attention of the international media and foreign chancelleries.

At this point, let's face it frankly, we cannot cancel what has happened, we cannot think of recovering that climate of trust and that sense of trust which are essential conditions for being able to work, all together, in the interest of the country.

Now we turn the page. This country deserves a cohesive government, dedicated full-time to working exclusively for the well-being of citizens and to promote a prompt restart of our social life and an incisive recovery of our economy.

The tasks are many and they are all urgent.

A) First of all, we must all continue to work together to secure the country and get it out of this pandemic.
The vaccine distribution plan is proceeding apace. We are the first in the European Union, but we must continue to work with the utmost determination, waiting for the new vaccines to become available and to be able to test the new monoclonal therapies.

B) We have to complete the Recovery Plan.
We have sent the updated document to Parliament and we look forward to receiving your valuable information contained in the resolutions.
At the same time, we will start discussions with all the social partners to acquire all the useful suggestions for improving the Plan.
I want to take advantage of this public occasion to address a thank you, on behalf of the government, to all the associations representing the productive categories: the dialogue with them is always continuous and close and will be even more intense now with this new improved draft of the Recovery Plan. But I also want to thank the Italian trade union for the great effort it is making: all the associations are offering an indispensable contribution to making our interventions more effective. I am addressing you directly: you are helping to strengthen the social stability of the country. With the safety protocols, together with the CTS and, lastly, with the willingness to collaborate to speed up the administration of vaccines, you have set all the conditions for health protection, safety in the workplace and economic recovery to march in unison.
As for the recovery plan, I would like to remind you that, once we receive the comments from Parliament and the social partners, we will be in a position to proceed with the final draft, which we will return to Parliament for final approval.
I note that we are the only country that has involved Parliament so intensely and constantly. I anticipated it from the beginning: our Recovery and Resilience Plan will be a widely shared program, it will be a collective effort that we must be proud of.
To find ourselves in a position to be proud of this effort, however, we will have to accompany the plan with a regulatory provision containing procedural paths capable of overcoming bureaucratic obstacles and ensuring rapid times for the implementation of the investments and the reform plan. In short, we will have to reinforce those safeguards that allow us to respect deadlines and carefully monitor the execution of the works.

C) We must work with the utmost urgency to enact the new refreshment decree. Parliament will be called upon to comment on the new request for a deviation, which has become necessary due to the current evolution of the epidemiological curve which unfortunately involves new restrictions for economic activities. The sum is very substantial: equal to 32 billion euros of net debt. These are resources that we will have to plan with the utmost caution to offer an additional social and economic protection belt and to set aside the reserves necessary to activate the social safety nets for the whole of 2021.

D) Italy needs a series of interventions and reforms in the economic-social field that provide for a renewed commitment by the Government, from now to the natural end of the legislature, on the basis of various areas of intervention, which I try to summarize:
a) as regards work, it is necessary to introduce a reform that serves to rationalize the system of social safety nets and solid proposals for active labor policies;
b) as for health: territorial medicine and home care must be strengthened;
c) education and research: we must strengthen investments in research, promote the connection between research and the productive world, as a prerequisite for innovation and technology transfer;
d) green revolution, environmental sustainability and protection of the territory: the decarbonisation of electricity production must be accelerated; encourage incentives for industry to broadly adopt eco-friendly practices; promote the renewal of the public rolling stock and of private and commercial means of transport; strengthen interventions to protect the water network and to make the territory safe; better coordination of urban regeneration interventions; incentives for the development of sustainable agricultural and fishing models; introduce appropriate environmental conditionalities in the distribution of funds to local authorities;
e) industrial policy: we must continue to protect and safeguard the country's most strategic investments, especially in this recessionary period, and favor an industrial strategy aimed at relaunching the competitiveness of the production system, aimed at generating a structural change towards high-value economic activities added; to avoid concentrating the interventions according to a logic, certainly very within the scope of incentives, which however risk being distributed indiscriminately, bringing little added value; we must strengthen intervention policies on the basis of our strongest and most productive supply chains: I am thinking of the most strategic ones for our country such as tourism, automotive, agro-industrial and more;
we will certainly have to favor more innovative public-private partnership mechanisms;
f) welfare and the third sector: investments in welfare, calibrated on social needs that are still not fully satisfied – such as housing services, services for children and the family, care services and for the benefit of vulnerabilities and the elderly – they are essential to generate a high economic and employment return, with widespread benefits for the whole country; and obviously, attention to the needs of people with disabilities, to fragile people, to their families, who especially in this period, feel the suffering more acute must always remain central. We have worked hard for them to promote self-sufficient living policies, we need to work even harder and look at that here in Parliament you have improved many of these interventions. Now all together we must work to protect the figure of the caregiver and strengthen the tools and initiatives useful for strengthening social inclusion;
g) gender policies and female empowerment: to tackle gender gaps, it is necessary to promote actions aimed at increasing female employment and leveling wage gaps, freeing women from imbalances in care burdens, strengthening support for female victims violence, to imprint a cultural and educational change in the gender issue and to favor, in general, a more transversal and integrated participation of women within society even in the most senior positions;
h) tax reform: a discussion has already started, which must as soon as possible translate into a concrete reform project that can no longer be postponed, in order to rationalize and simplify the existing regulatory framework, essential for rebuilding the confidence of citizens and businesses, as well as to achieve a better distribution of wealth;
i) digitization: pillar of the Government's action, the need to digitize the country, both as regards the production system and as regards the public administration, is very much a priority, especially in a historical moment in which it emerged clearly that the digital divide is a source of increasing social, territorial and economic inequalities;
l) culture and tourism: in order to relaunch culture and tourism, the pillars of a national strategy have been identified; they are the sectors most affected by this pandemic by far, we must enhance the country's main cultural assets, staff training and the strengthening of the tourist offer, also through the attraction of new investments.

Today we greet good news that has just been released. Let's get ready to visit Procida. It is the Italian capital of culture in 2022.

On these issues it is possible to find – among the parliamentary forces – a convergence of reform perspectives and concrete proposals, on which to orient future government action for the revival of the country.

It is also necessary to dedicate a particular effort to continue with conviction the path of institutional reforms, an essential precondition for the modernization and greater functionality of its institutions.

All the more then, following the historic constitutional reform that led to a substantial reduction in the number of parliamentarians approved in the confirmatory referendum by the decided majority of citizens.

To this end, in the matter of electoral law, the Government, in compliance with the decisions of the parliamentary forces, will undertake to promote a proportional reform, shared as much as possible, since it is a system reform, which can effectively combine the reasons for pluralism representation with the need, albeit unavoidable, to ensure overall stability to the political system.

The modification of the electoral system must be accompanied by some innovations of the institutional system, all the more necessary in light of the reduction in the number of parliamentarians, in line with the guidelines already shared by the majority parliamentary groups, in the agreement reached in October 2019.

It is necessary to introduce some corrections to the form of government, inspired by the model of a rationalized parliamentarism, which guarantees a more secure stability to the executive and which, at the same time, restores a central role to Parliament in defining the national political direction.

As regards the legislative procedure, on the other hand, some provisions may be introduced aimed at rationalizing the process of approval of the laws and also with the aim of reducing the use of emergency decrees which even more so in the last year of this pandemic has significantly affected the parliamentary activity.

The experience of the pandemic also requires careful reflection on the revision of Title V of Part II of the Constitution, with particular regard to the structure of the legislative powers of the State and Regions, as well as the identification of mechanisms and institutions that allow for more effective coordination the relationship between the different levels of government.

In this context, special autonomies and linguistic minorities must be guaranteed and protected with the utmost intensity. National interest is more than ever connected, in the wake of our best historical and constitutional tradition, to a system that enhances, within the framework of the unity of the Republic, the specific economic and social needs of the different territorial realities, some of which – for geographical reasons, linguistic and cultural specificities – undoubtedly deserve attention and care.

On the international level, Italy has moved in full coherence with the traditional pillars of its foreign policy, starting with its membership of the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance, within which we have carried out an impulse and mediation equal to our role as a founding country.

As an authoritative member of the European Union – a function fully recovered in this section of the legislature – we have the opportunity to also offer an important contribution to a useful connection between the main international actors, starting naturally from the United States – our main ally and fundamental strategic partner – and from China, whose undeniable importance on a global and economic level must be associated with relations consistent with a clear anchoring to our system of values ​​and principles.

The Italian Presidency of the G20 has just begun: we will have the opportunity to direct the global agenda on the priorities that we have already anticipated and which revolve around the triad of Person, Planet, Prosperity. As I have already mentioned on several occasions, we will place the issues of women's empowerment, Africa and the digital divide at the center of the attention of world leaders, among others.

This year we will also have the responsibility to share the organization of COP26 with the UK. Two major events will be held in Italy: PreCop and Youth4Climate. Hundreds and hundreds of young people will arrive in Milan. It will be an important event and a breakthrough within this format.

Equally strong and coherent was our action at the regional level, also in line with our consolidated interest in the stabilization and development of the Mediterranean – with particular attention to a political solution to the crisis in Libya, in full respect of its sovereignty. – and to the integration process of the Western Balkans, in the belief of a destiny linked to their belonging to the European family.

Finally, we have given specific emphasis to an intense action in support of the internationalization of businesses and of our general economic system, through a collective commitment by the government and in particular by the Farnesina.

We also have the privilege of hosting the Global Health Summit this year on May 21, which will allow us to solemnly emphasize the importance of global coordination of efforts to tackle diseases and pandemics and to ensure the most effective protection of health.

It is a calendar, you can see it, which is characterized by the density of events and by the political importance of the appointments.

We cannot be caught unprepared or distracted. We are all called to make, each for his own role, a collective effort to be up to these challenges. For this, the Government needs the greatest possible cohesion and the widest consensus in Parliament.

To do all this we need a government, in fact, and willing parliamentary forces, aware of the difficulties we are going through and the delicacy of the tasks, we need women and men capable of shunning selfishness and chasing away the temptation to look at personal profit.

We need people willing to maintain high the dignity of politics, the noblest of arts and knowledge, if expressed in the right spirit that always and exclusively aims at the well-being of citizens and the improvement of their quality of life.

This government intends to pursue a very specific political project, which aims to modernize the country, improving its tangible and intangible infrastructures, making the energy and digital transition, enhancing social inclusion, all in the name of sustainable development.

Anyone who has ideas, projects and the will to build together with us this alliance devoted to pursuing "sustainable development", know that this is the right time to contribute to this perspective.

This alliance will be called upon to express an essential pro-European vocation. Political forces, therefore, which are called upon to make a clear choice of camp against nationalist tendencies and sovereign logic.

This alliance can already count on a solid basis of dialogue fueled by the Movimento5stelle, by the Pd and by Leu, which is demonstrating the solidity of its anchorage and the breadth of its breath precisely on the occasion of the climate generated by this crisis.

It would be an enrichment for this alliance, I want to state it very clearly, to be able to acquire the political contribution of formations that are placed in the wake of the best and noblest Europeanist traditions: liberal, popular, socialist.

But I ask for clear support, transparent support, which is based on convinced adhesion to a political project, based on the strength and clarity of the proposal.

To all those who have the fate of Italy at heart, I ask today: help us. Help us to leave again as quickly as possible. Help us to heal as soon as possible the wound that the current crisis has produced in the "pact of trust" established with the citizens.

Dear citizens, you are absolutely right. Trust between the institutions and you citizens must be mutual. It must be a perpetual motion that feeds in a one-to-one direction.

We have asked you and we are asking you for many sacrifices, large and even small ones, because – we have told you – they are necessary to overcome the pandemic.

You have offered a response of great responsibility, which has shown the greatness of our nation. By respecting the rules, by accepting to make the sacrifices required, you are showing that you place great trust in institutions as well.

Here, with today's vote, I am confident that the institutions will also be able to repay your trust, in order to put behind us as quickly as possible the serious act of irresponsibility that has plunged us into this condition of uncertainty.

I want to announce to the majority forces that support this Government that in the next few days I will ask you to complete the discussion already started to define an end-of-term pact and agree together, in a climate of full loyalty and trust, the conditions and the most useful forms. to strengthen the government team.

For my part, I predict that, given the new challenges that await me, even the international commitments this year, as you have seen, will be particularly heavy, I do not intend to maintain the delegation to agriculture if not strictly necessary and I will also take advantage of the faculty , which the law grants me, to designate a delegated intelligence authority of my trust, as the law prescribes, that can follow the daily work of women and men in the intelligence sector.

I make a collective invitation to you all. You see, these have been difficult days and the political controversies have unfortunately also involved the intelligence sector. You are all parliamentarians, if you have any proposals to change the law, follow the traditional institutional channels. If you have any requests for verification and control, there are your Copasir colleagues, deputies to this function, but let's keep the intelligence sector out of controversy.

For my part, I assure you of maximum availability and commitment to guide, with the contribution of all, this crucial phase for the renewal of the country.
As the President of the Republic said in his end-of-year message, "the trust we need is built like this: by keeping the responsibilities of the institutions connected with the feelings of the people".

If Parliament wants to give the Government its trust, I guarantee all citizens that we will not only continue to use all our energies, physical and intellectual, to carry out our task. But we will also add, as always, our hearts, because politics without “sympatheia”, that feeling of real sharing, is a discipline without a soul.

Let's build this new political bond, aimed at the parliamentary forces who have loyally supported the Government and open to all those who care about Italy's destiny. I am willing to do my part.

Long live Italy.

Thanks.

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Monday, January 18, 2021

The reply of the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, following the general discussion on Communications to the Chamber of Deputies on the current political situation.

Thank you Mr. President and I thank all the Deputies who have intervened, who have also made very detailed interventions to feed the debate and obviously comment on the communications that I summarized this morning. I have also seen that from some interventions some critical notations have emerged regarding the appeal I have made. I must say that it is a very clear call, it is a very clear call.

There is a very specific political project, it is a well-articulated political project, it is a project that aims to make our country more modern, it is a project that also aims to complete many reforms, many interventions that we have already put in place, we have need to offer our citizens to achieve the green transition, we need to pursue the digital transition, we need to address, today more than ever, all those old and new inequalities as well because this pandemic – we are experiencing it all together – is creating new inequalities, it is redesigning the old ones, it is also transforming traditional, social relationships and creating new inequalities. So today we have a society that risks emerging from this pandemic with strong gender inequalities, even more pronounced; generational, even more pronounced; territorial and so on.

Here is our ability, the strength of this project, the perspective of this project is to work in this direction. We must not have fears and no shyness when we think with a clear look, with a certain perspective.

I made an appeal to all political forces but also to individual parliamentarians, I also invoked the conscience of individual parliamentarians: those who identify with this project can lend a hand, can contribute ideas, especially projects, if above all we think about heritage of ideas, of noble cultures, of tried and tested practices that are also contained in traditional families, those that however have a clear pro-European vocation. I am speaking of the liberal tradition, of the democratic, popular and even socialist traditions. And in particular the future of the country depends on the choices that each one will decide to make in this serious hour, it is a future that we are called to build together in the light of the sun, calling the best forces and energies to commitment. So it is a transparent appeal, it is a clear appeal, which I propose here in the most institutional and most representative seat which is that of Parliament, precisely to face together the difficulties of the present, to build the future together. And the fact that there is a well-articulated and precise project behind it absolutely strengthens the nobility of this initiative.

I said this political project has a strong pro-European vocation because at this moment Italy can benefit from a strong consonance, a strong harmony between the political direction of the European Commission and what we are pursuing. The fact that – it will not have escaped – the political, economic and social objectives at the basis of our reform project are also almost specifically indicated in the NextGenerationEU program is not accidental, it is not accidental because the European Commission from the beginning has wanted to give this strong direction towards a green and digital transition that places us – we who have this inspiration, who have this approach and who pursue these objectives – in a position of absolute primacy also in the European context, precisely by virtue of this harmony and this consonance.

And yet there is another element that strengthens our project and makes it even more solid, gives it a longer perspective, more political depth. And that is that we look with great hope to the Biden presidency. I already had a long and warm phone call with him and we are left that we will update soon also in view of our G20. The new administration's agenda is our agenda. We absolutely share – and I have repeated it several times – multilateralism, a multilateral approach because bilateralism has not solved the problems and cannot solve the problems.

And again, the important thing is also to work to renew international institutions. Today, for example, the WTO, we are aware that it needs to be reformed. We must work together precisely so that the multilateral approach can use tools and initiatives that are truly effective. And then there is a great consonance on the theme of climate change, for sustainable development, and on this, clearly, in all these multilateral fora, starting with the G20, the Cop26, of which we are co-presidents with the United Kingdom, we will absolutely benefit. of this great harmony.

After the terrible events of January 6 we had a confirmation: that our democracies must be defended with deeds and words. And that we leaders have a special responsibility, because we cannot afford, as has happened in the United States, to feed the tension.

I take this opportunity to talk about the earthquake, on the earthquake I would like to say that there has been a turning point in the earthquake areas of the center-south. Because we have overcome the slowness of the past despite the health emergency. Reconstruction accelerated sharply in 2020. The applications presented and approved grew by 60% compared to 2019, the grants already approved amounted to 1.5 billion euros.

Four thousand families were able to return to homes rebuilt or repaired after the earthquake. We have 3,250 construction sites open and the prospect of opening thousands more. The regulatory simplification that we have approved, with the contribution of this Parliament, is proving to be very effective. And I must thank, among other things, the extraordinary Commissioner for the synergy with the local authorities for this strong acceleration. And again the local authorities: the municipalities, the provinces. In their favor, we will prepare – as requested by Parliament – the enabling law for the organic revision of the TUEL, in the name of simplification and responsibility and efficiency of local authorities in a new charter of the Autonomies.

When it comes to digitization, I dare to say, it is a complex process, but they are not empty words. We are already achieving digitization. We will have a great acceleration with the resources of the Recovery Fund, but we take into account, to understand the effort we are making, that in September 2019, when the government took office, Spid – digital identity is the basis for digital society – had the accession of 4 million citizens. Well now there are almost 16 million and 100 thousand, four times more than then. Yet. The Io app, which is so fundamental because it makes the digital services of the PA accessible and available, did not exist in September 2019: today it is in use by 9.3 million citizens. This will be the key, among others, to access the services, in an easy way, and therefore simplified services, of the Public Administration. And so on. The ultra-broadband at the end of 2019, the municipalities in which it was completed were, just think, 79. Today there are 1731. And with the single network project we are confident to accelerate this path even more.

A word on refreshments, because from what I have been saying from some speeches I understand that my words have been misunderstood. I spoke of compensation proportional to the losses suffered. Proportional does not mean that they have compensated for all the losses suffered. The government is well aware that much more resources would be needed. Proportional means related to the losses suffered. We will continue to work in this direction, to do even more, but I want to say that the Revenue Agency has provided 3 million transfers to as many citizens as economic operators since the approval of the Relaunch decree and the automatic transfers provided for have also been paid by the decree law on measures for Christmas. Now a new task awaits us. The government will obviously prepare the new support measures for families, workers, businesses, but then it will be Parliament, as you have already done, with the involvement of the opposition, to improve the new regulation of refreshments and your contribution, once again, I'm sure it will be precious.

Yet. For the south, someone said I didn't mention the south. Attention, clearly this is a government that is often accused of being even too southern. The south is at the top of the government's agenda, but not only for an ideological choice, but because the gap is such that if Italy has not managed to express the adequate potential for economic growth that is in its strings, this is due precisely to the fact that the south cannot run. We must make the south run, because in such an integrated economy, only in this way can the north and all of Italy run. The advantageous taxation that I mentioned is a historic measure. On the contrary, I said that it provides for a 30% deduction for three years, I have to correct myself: for 5 years. It represents only one piece of a more complex, much more comprehensive strategy.

We have already unraveled the strategy and specifically indicated in the South 2030 Plan that we presented last February. You will find there a concentration of measures as never before had been developed and thought about. If we also look at the Recovery Plan which I will talk about in a moment, which has now arrived in Parliament in its updated version, well we are concentrating investments in the South according to a first estimate for about 50%, if we consider all the projects that also unfold. transversely.

You yourselves have contributed to the approval of some measures of the last budget law aimed at businesses and work in the South, the tax credit for investments financed for over 1 billion, the strengthening of the research fund in the South and the development, the innovation ecosystems project of the South on the model of the technological center of San Giovanni a Teduccio, a very difficult, very complicated neighborhood, we also remember the long-standing, terrible dispute of Whirlpool. And I also want to remember the enlargement of the no tax area for university enrollments: it had a strong impact in the South for the academic year 2020/21. Think that in the South for the first time – it is an important fact that must make everyone happy – we have reversed the negative signs: enrollments in 2020 and 2021 for the first time had a positive sign in the universities of the South and increased by 7 , 5%. This is encouraging.

In the Recovery Fund you will find many infrastructures for the South, railways, for over 15 billion. There was an intervention that complained of little attention for Calabria, but there are 2.3 billion just for infrastructure in Calabria.

In the PNRR you will find many of these indications. As I have already said, it comes here in Parliament to allow you to elaborate some valuable information, you have already done so with the resolution you voted on approving the guidelines. Now there is the possibility to make another precious contribution and to give all the suggestions, to make all the improvements that you will consider in the comparison that will continue. To be even clearer we will still have the opportunity to speak – therefore a constant dialogue – because when we collect your indications together with those of the social partners, we will then elaborate the final version of the Recovery Plan and we will return here in Parliament to welcome once again your final resolution.

I have finished and obviously I ask, from this point of view, Mr. President and ladies and gentlemen, I ask on behalf of the Government to ask the question of confidence in the approval of the majority resolution.

Thanks again.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-suk-di-conte-recovery-mezza-ciofeca-dice-gentiloni-meloni-avvisa-il-colle-dibattito-nella-lega-su-urlatori-e-starlette/ on Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:09:36 +0000.