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Double the growth rate of the Italian economy, taking it from the average of + 0.8% of the last decade to a level in line with the European average of 1.6%; increase investments to 3% of GDP, achieve an increase in the employment rate of 10 percentage points, from the current 63% in Italy to 73.2% of the current EU average; bring spending on research and development to 2.1% compared to 1.3% today. These are some of the “quantitative objectives” and “challenges” that the government intends to achieve with the proposals of the EU Next Generation plan, planned with the Recovery Fund. Proposal consisting of 38 pages and 32 slides. The document is divided into six sections. In one he defines the Italian economic and social context and the government’s recovery plan, based on nine “lines of action.” It then lists the goals and challenges for Italy and focuses on the project selection criteria. Finally, the policies and reforms that support the plan, from the Public Administration to the investigation to the Prosecutor’s Office, Justice and Labor, available resources and budgetary policy.
Less taxes on middle classes and families
“A comprehensive reform of direct and indirect taxation, aimed at designing a fair, simple and transparent tax for citizens, which in particular reduces the tax burden on the middle classes and families with children and accelerates the transition of the economic system towards a greater environmental sustainability “. It is another of the points of the guidelines indicated in the chapter “tax reform” that provides for the transfer of the burden “from people to things” and a “reduction of the tax burden together with a tax system favorable to
growth. ”“ The government – it is also explained – has also decided to deactivate all VAT increases and special taxes provided for in the safeguard clauses ”.
Minimum salary
The minimum wage also falls within the guidelines of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan sent by the government to Parliament. “The introduction of the legal minimum wage – the document reads – will guarantee workers in sectors with low union affiliation a level of income linked to a decent minimum standard, avoiding contractual dumping and strengthening bargaining in the weakest sectors”. Protection of the most vulnerable workers will also be achieved by strengthening national collective bargaining and union representation in the workplace.
Equity, begins with Family Act and Irpef
Social, gender and territorial equity. It is another of the six missions outlined in the PNRR guidelines sent by the government to Parliament. To achieve the objective, the indicated areas of intervention range from job creation and income protection to the strengthening of active policies also in favor of youth employment, from the fight against undeclared work to “female empowerment” with courses training, employability and self-employment for women and with the aim of reducing the gender pay gap. Central of the Family Act “linked to the reform of the IRPEF” and the implementation of the South Plan 2030.
School, wiring and more daycare
The fiber optic cabling of school and university infrastructures will also be updated in terms of energy efficiency and anti-seismic. But also the arrival of infrastructures for e-learning and the reinforcement of kindergartens and nurseries between zero and six years old. These are some of the thematic areas contemplated by the mission “Education, Training, Research and Culture” of the guidelines of the Recovery Plan. Among the ‘chapters’ there is also the strengthening of research, recycling and training of teachers, the digitization of learning processes and tools. It also points to new digital tools for the protection of cultural heritage.
Scan, single network at 5g
The “completion of the national fiber optic telecommunications network”, interventions “for the development of 5G” but also the creation of datacenter and cloud and the arrival of the “Unique Digital Identity for citizens and companies”. These are some of the chapters foreseen by one of the six ‘missions’ – the one related to ‘digitization, innovation and competitiveness of the productive system’ – indicated in the guidelines of the Recovery Plan that the Government sent to Parliament.
Review of highway concessions, columns in the network
Give a new impetus to the review of highway concessions “in order to ensure greater transparency, competitiveness between operators and the correct balance between public interest and business interest, as well as the constant improvement of service to users, implementing punctually the resolutions of the “Transport Regulatory Authority.” This is another of the specific indications contained in the guidance on the recovery plan sent to Parliament. The motorway network, says the document, must adapt to the progressive spread of vehicles electric, by providing fast charging columns.
Green revolution, less coal, more woods
Infrastructures for a gradual decarbonisation in transport, urban afforestation plans and also reforestation to limit hydrogeological risks; investments in the circular economy from waste and renewable sources; integrated management of the water cycle; advantageous taxation for sustainable companies; support for the ecological transition for agriculture, industry and the steel industry (Taranto). Instead, these are some of the ‘chapters’ foreseen by the mission of “green revolution and ecological transition” that the government has included among the guidelines of the Recovery Plan, envisaging investments aimed at achieving the objectives of the European Green Deal.
Conte letter
Meanwhile, in a letter Prime Minister Giuseppe says that he is willing to inform the Chambers of the proposed guidelines for the definition of the Italian Recovery and Resilience Plan to access the funds provided by the Recovery Fund: “If the Chambers consider it appropriate, the government is available to report on the essential lines of the document, both in the decentralized offices of the commissions and in the plenary headquarters of the assembly. “” In each of the stages, in the spirit of maximum collaboration and synergy between the government and the Parliament, the full participation of the Chambers will be ensured in order to implement guidelines, evaluations and concrete intervention proposals – Conte said in the letter – The current planning phase represents a strategic crossroads, a historic opportunity which cannot be renounced for the success of economic action and for the growth and modernization prospects of Italy. Certainly, the challenge that awaits us is extremely complex and requires the deployment of the best energies and skills in the country, as well as constant dialogue and collaboration between the institutions. “
The oppositions
And if Conte is therefore willing to denounce the plan’s guidelines, the opposition argues that “in the preparation of the Recovery Fund, the government continues to be the ‘dear friend'”, as stated by Mariastella Gelmini, leader of the Forza Italia group in the Chamber of Deputies. speaking on “Radio Anch’io”, on Radio Uno. “Gualtieri – he added – spoke about some projects, exactly the opposite of what is happening: we are facing a myriad of projects without a hint yet. In the meantime we would have expected a different date for Gualtieri’s hearing. . The majority calls for dialogue with the opposition and chooses as the date the week in which Parliament is closed for commitments in the territories of all of us for the electoral campaign. But net of the date, to date there has been no participation of the opposition, no indication of priorities, many projects with the dispersion of resources in a thousand streams ”, he concluded. “Enough is enough – urges Mara Carfagna, vice president of the Chamber and deputy of Forza Italia on Twitter – President Conte stops at the fiction of these invitations to dialogue, as if the opposition did not want to speak with him. arrange a meeting, but he’s gone. Now come to Parliament and hear our proposals on the Recovery Fund. “
