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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, contemplated with the so-called Recovery Fund.
Proposal consisting of 38 pages and 32 slides. The document is divided into six sections (Digitization, innovation and competitiveness of the productive system; Green revolution and ecological transition; Infrastructures for mobility; Education, training, research and culture; Social, gender and territorial equity; Health). In one she 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 the middle classes and families with children
“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 one 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 increases in VAT 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 a low unionization rate a level of income linked to a decent minimum standard, avoiding contractual dumping and strengthening bargaining in the weakest sectors” The protection of the most vulnerable workers will also be achieved by strengthening national collective bargaining and union representation in the workplace.
School mission: wiring and more nurseries
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 mission: single network at 5g
The “completion of the national fiber optic telecommunications network”, interventions “for the development of 5G” but also the creation of data centers and clouds and the arrival of the “Unique Digital Identity for citizens and companies”. These are some of the planned chapters of one of the six “missions” – the one of ‘digitization, innovation and competitiveness of the productive system’ – indicated in the guidelines of the Recovery Plan that the Government sent to Parliament.
Review highway concessions, columns in the network.
Give greater impetus to the review of highway concessions “in order to guarantee greater transparency, competitiveness between operators and the correct balance between public interest and business interests, as well as the constant improvement of the service to users, implementing punctually the resolutions of the ‘Transport Regulatory Authority’. It is one 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 electric vehicles, by providing fast loading columns.
Prime Minister Conte: “The Government is ready to inform the Chambers”
When transmitting the guidelines to the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber, Prime Minister Conte accompanied the document in a letter in which he expressed his willingness to inform Parliament: “If the Chambers deem 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 seat of the assembly.
