Here’s how and why former Economy Minister Tria overwhelms the MEF bureaucrats
Surprise torpedo by the former Economy Minister, Giovanni Tria, to the ministerial bureaucracies in terms of requests in Brussels
Ex-minister of the Economy against ministerial leaders also of the Treasury.
State boyars in the crosshairs of the former tenant of via XX Settembre, Giovanni Tria , who, speaking in the Sole 24 Ore , indulges in some unequivocal comments on the extent of their action (or inaction) in crucial matches, such as that in possible programs supported by Community funds or, on the opposite side, by real state aid subsidized directly by individual governments (state aid in the pre-pandemic era was prohibited by the Treaties so as not to distort the game of competition in the common market, but we know very well that this has not prevented France from heavy interference in the life of its companies).
WHAT TRIA WRITE
"We must also be aware – writes Tria – that during the pandemic, our country used to a minimum extent the greater space granted by European rules to state aid (thanks to the temporary framework), compared to France and Germany, not both due to lack of resources and because the structures of the competent ministries adopt a much more restrictive interpretation of the European rules than that of other countries and are much less inclined to negotiate possible interventions with the Commission”. The unfair competition that yesterday banned state aid from the twenty-seven range, suggests the former MEF minister, today also comes from here: from the inability or lack of will on the part of our technicians to sit at the same table with their counterparts communities to obtain better conditions.
THE AUTOGOL OF OUR BUREAUCRATS
"This is an important caveat – continues Tria -, because it would be useless to fight in Europe to have more room for action if there are no operational structures in our country that know how, or want to, use it". A weighty criticism, which certainly fuels doubts about Italy's irrelevance in the EU, not only politically but also in terms of technicians, also the result of the decades-long snobbery that Rome has always shown towards what is happening in Brussels.
But if Paris, Berlin, Madrid and the others dialogue more and better than us with the Commission, they risk wresting favorable conditions, to the detriment of our entrepreneurial and economic fabric. A risk that emerges all the more overbearing today, in the Next Generation Eu match, the funds made available in the midst of the pandemic by Brussels for the post-pandemic reconstruction and the strengthening of those countries, Italy in primis , most exposed in the economic crises.
STATE AID NUMBERS FOR FRANCE AND GERMANY
Of the 672 billion euros in state aid that the Commission approved in 2022, Germany was worth 53 percent of the total (356 billion) and France 24 percent (161 billion). Italy's share, on the other hand, was around 7 percent (51 billion), followed by Denmark (24 billion). All other member countries together received less than 12 percent of the remaining sum approved by Brussels, or 78 billion euros.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/ecco-come-e-perche-lex-ministro-delleconomia-tria-strapazza-i-burocrati-del-mef/ on Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:33:32 +0000.