“We are no longer facing the outbreak of the pandemic”

Published on: 05/09/2020 6:33 PM

”New infections” recorded these days are due to ”August distractions”, but they are less than in other countries. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said this in Cernobbio. “We got out of this mainly thanks to the citizens and it is not a compliment. Italy has proven to be very disciplined” in the management of the Covid-19 emergency. “The infection figures are still important, but we are no longer facing the explosion of the pandemic.” “There will no longer be a generalized blockade,” promises the prime minister. “I told my ministers right away that the looming health emergency would turn into an economic and social emergency in no time. If I have to be honest, in the face of the health emergency, He was very concerned about the economic and also the social stability of the system.” The “numbers of contagion are still not negligible but today we know the danger, we have structured ourselves with a surveillance system that will reasonably allow us to intervene in a focused and territorially circumscribed way. We have faced a very serious and very serious health emergency that immediately became economic emergency. We did not know in terms of public order what would happen. It was a challenge that led our system to complex responses, and law enforcement has always weighed in our evaluations. ”

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Italy has faced the health emergency and economic crisis due to Covid with “resilience and tenacity”. “There are signs of confidence” for the economy. The “production recovers”, but “at this moment nobody can say how and when to get out of the economic suffering”. “We are not thinking of asking for European resources to lower taxes.” “Now is the time to act and grow back,” he says, to “restart.”

“We want to contribute to reinvent our country, because we will not settle for designing a return to normality, but we need to improve our country and we will do so according to the perspective already outlined several times: a new humanism” ” We have very clear ideas about the way forward. A complex challenge awaits us, but we are in a position to win it, because as a country we have quality, courage, vision and determination. Our sensitivity will lead us, on this path of renewal, to make a contribution to improve this country. ”

THE ECONOMY – The fall in Italian GDP in the second quarter is 12.8% compared to the previous quarter and is “a significant fall but just below the European average and higher than that registered in France, Spain and the United Kingdom”. If we look at 2019 GDP on an annual basis, Italy lost 17.7%, France 18.9%, Spain 22.1% and the United Kingdom 21.7%. signs of confidence, I want to read them carefully. “” The economic situation continues to show an extremely complex panorama and all the experts emphasize that this panorama is characterized by elements of uncertainty. No one can say when we will get out of it, “he adds.” It would be premature for policy makers to believe that the phase of interventions necessary to return to normality is over. “But the objective is not to return to normality” before the crisis. ” , but to solve the structural problems that have prevented Italy from growing. “I am referring to the last twenty years, where Italy has not grown at the same rate as other countries. The recession due to the pandemic occurred at the beginning of a twenty-year period lost from the point of view of growth, with an annual increase in GDP of 0.2%. “

TAX REFORM – “We must absolutely pursue an organic reform of our tax system.” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wants to pursue “an organic reform of the tax system”, which is one of the government’s urgencies. “For decades, some 40 years, the system has not enjoyed an organic, systemic reform, there have been many stacked interventions without an organic design.” Now, however, “there is a team of experts working on it, supporting us and we are working to define a reform.” And again: “Having already laid the foundations for an increasingly intense digitization of payments, we believe that this is the way to combat work and the underground economy that hurts us so much.” A mechanism of “incentives for digital payments will arrive from December 1”, and will lead to the incentive of digital payments “without, however, at least in the first phase penalizing cash payments, so we do not generate social alarm. We trust in a virtuous practice that is will spread more and more. “

DIGITALIZATION OF PAYMENTS – “I say this frankly, we certainly do not think of asking European resources” from the Recovery Fund “to lower taxes. Instead,” we will need these resources to carry out all the projects that together will define a coherent plan and coordinated, destined to be a legacy for future generations. ” ” We are called to express a plan for the recovery and relaunch of the country. , well known at the political, social, economic and cultural level. More than 35% of available resources will go to green investments. ” “Certainly we will not lower taxes – he assured – with European money, but we are sure, having laid the foundations for an increasingly intense digitization of payments, that this is also the way to recover the hidden that hurts us so much.”

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – “We intend to devote priority attention to the digitization of public administration, which requires digital skills. Not only lawyers are needed, but external disciplines. And we need to strengthen training at all levels ”.

DL SIMPLIFICATIONS – “It has been a very demanding effort”, but the premier explains that he is not entirely satisfied: “I am not satisfied, we will have to intervene again, sectorally to streamline administrative procedures.”

THE SINGLE NETWORK – “The blockade demonstrated the centrality of the connection and we hope that the process can be completed soon for the birth of a unique fiber optic network, a fundamental infrastructure for the country that the government intends to promote and for which an important first step has been taken, and this step has been expected for fourteen years. ”“ It is a very complex path. We trust – he adds – that it will be completed soon, as soon as possible, making use of the role of strategic investor and patient of Cdp. “” We are, and Gubitosi knows it, for an inclusive, open infrastructure that can be opened to the greatest number of stakeholders possible, investment projects that will accompany the reforms to return the country to the path of growth, “said Conte, speaking at the Ambrosetti Forum about the single network, the project initiated by Tim and Cdp. Tim’s CEO, Luigi Gubitosi , was present at the Forum.