The prime minister spoke on the second day of the event and also referred to the floods in Emilia Romagna: “It is not yet possible to quantify the damage, which is enormous.” Then, about the tensions with France, he says: “The fact that governments of different political formations from ours feel the duty to criticize us means that the government is doing very well.” At 4:00 p.m. speech by the Minister of Economy Giorgetti
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The European Union Solidarity Fund for Emilia Romagna will be activated. And a cut in the structural tax wedge is better than the minimum wage. These are some of the topics addressed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni through a video link at the Trento Economy Festival, organized by the 24 Hours Group and Trentino Marketing on behalf of the Autonomous Province and now in its 18th edition. “The wave of bad weather that hit Emilia Romagna was exceptional, more than 200 millimeters of rain fell in 36 hours, added to the 300 that fell in the same area in the first week of May -said the prime minister- in 15 days half of all the rain that would fall in the same area in a whole year has fallen, the balance is serious in terms of victims, for which reason on Wednesday we decreed national mourning, there are more than 15 thousand evacuees, economic and productive activities in his knees. To this day, it is still not possible to quantify the global damage, which is enormous. We will work on the measures and requests that are made to the EU”. Space also for some personal information: “I became a nerd because I was an insecure person and since I was also proud I used that weakness trying to turn it into a strength. They have always underestimated me in life – Meloni added – but this can be a strong point because when they underestimate you you can also surprise”. of The sun 24 hours Gianni Trovati in a panel titled Only economic growth is the remedy for public debt.
Meloni: “Emilia Romagna is a locomotive”
Regarding the flood, Meloni said, “in the face of a catastrophe an immediate response was needed and it was found with the Council of Ministers on Tuesday with which we launched initial interventions for more than two billion euros, a great effort carried out in 72 hours I have to thank the entire Council of Ministers”. “We have focused on giving immediate responses to companies, workers, families, students, the agricultural, sports and health sectors,” he added. We have worked 360 degrees to show that we are not going to look the other way, not only because it is a duty for those citizens, but also because it is important for Italy as a whole. Emilia Romagna is a locomotive and if it stops we cannot maintain the good macroeconomic parameters that we are seeing”. “In general, when you lose everything, the prevailing feeling is anger, the search for who is responsible or resignation. In Emilia Romagna I found people shoveling mud with pride in their eyes, saying ‘it’s okay, we have a problem, we will solve it, we will rebuild it’ – concluded the Prime Minister – When you find citizens who in the meantime know that they have to start from their ability to lend a hand All the more reason you have to roll up your sleeves. We are doing everything we could do, more will be needed to rebuild.”
Meloni: “Flexibility in funds is essential”
“We are going to be called to seek the necessary resources – Meloni reiterated – One thing is to read the numbers and another is to see” the damage suffered. “Above all, we will activate the solidarity fund, there is also the cohesion fund” and the possibility of “making existing funds more flexible”, including the Pnrr, is also essential. “The Pnrr refers mainly to security – she added – it is a strategic fund” for the unexpected. “I went to Japan appointing a commissioner for drought and I come back” having to make one for bad weather, “the security of the territory is an absolute priority.”
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Meloni: “Cutting the wedge is better than the minimum wage”
Meloni then spoke of the cut in the tax wedge decided with the Maneuver and with the decree of May 1: “We have starvation wages, the problem of inflation, it is said that we must imagine a legal minimum wage and then it is also said that lowering the wedge and reinforcing payrolls is useless: they are things that are not standing. It is better to cut the wedge than to make the legal minimum wage, which is good on a philosophical level but in its application it risks being a boomerang”. “The impact of the cut we are making is different from what my predecessors did, and it is not finished. The cut in taxes on work should be the priority -he added- It has a significant impact with galloping inflation. the most important thing to do at this stage. That’s not all: the first challenge is to make these measures structural, the second is to extend them further.”
Meloni: “Let’s not throw in the towel in the fight against tax evasion”
“We do not want to throw in the towel” in the fight against tax evasion, in Maniobra “we hired 3,900 new officials for the Tax Agency just as we were the first to consider a rule against opening and closing companies,” Meloni said later, stressing that Until now “the fight against evasion has been more like a hunt for income.” On the other hand, “I believe that we must go to combat large-scale evasion, I am thinking of VAT fraud, I am thinking of the State that haggles over billions of euros asking for the return of millions, with an availability that no show with small merchants”.
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Meloni: “Reforms and autonomy in the legislature”
Meloni then stressed that the story according to which “the FdI is for presidentialism and the League for Autonomy is not true: presidentialism and autonomy are in the center-right program that we have been wanting to carry out in a trivial way for years because citizens He has asked us.” and once the citizens have expressed their opinions, we have to make them. That is what we are doing”, there are “different times” but “we will do them at the end of this legislature”. “The reform of State institutions is fundamental,” he added. We listen to everyone, but let’s start from two principles that are fundamental to me: the stability of governments and legislatures, which is the most powerful thing that can be built economically; and respect for the citizen vote, article 1 of the constitution, sovereignty belongs to the people. A reform of this type is not secondary: it is the most important thing that can be left as a legacy for the future”.
Meloni: “Autonomy will strengthen national cohesion”
“Differentiated autonomy will strengthen national cohesion, contrary to what is said -continued Meloni- because we will introduce the essential levels of services, which are the true element of cohesion and we will strengthen the capacities of those regions that know how to spend money better”. “I am not surprised that those who are tearing their hair out against differentiated autonomy in recent years have failed to spend billions of European funds,” he added.
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Meloni: “France? If they criticize us, it’s because we’re doing it well”
Meloni then responded to a question about the tensions and criticism coming from France: “The fact that various governments of different political formations from ours feel the duty to criticize us does not mean that there is a problem, it means that the government is doing very well” . . A certain narrative runs the risk of being denied and that is a problem that some have, not with us, but with their internal opposition.” In the G7 “with President Macron we had a very specific meeting, as always. I find a certain reading that is given of our relationships quite amusing, even a little childish, when they say, hello, you talk, you see each other”. .. Between Italy and France there are secular relations, they do not change due to the dynamics of internal politics”.
Meloni: “Today’s Italy is reliable, not compliant”
“Relations between allied nations do not depend on the color of the governments, the governments make a difference in position: Italy today is a serious nation, which walks with its head held high and is trustworthy, where, however, trustworthy does not mean dutiful, said the prime minister. As the photos with Joe Biden at the G7 also demonstrate, Italy is by no means “internationally isolated: these photos”, of “normal sympathy” gestures, reveal “the total falsehood of a narrative made” before, during and after ” the electoral campaign by a certain press and the center-left”.
Meloni: “The EU returns to Africa or it will be looted by others”
The prime minister also referred to the Mattei plan for Africa: “The challenge is to convince everyone to make investments, it is an issue on which we are working hard” to “make the EU once again be more present on a continent than on otherwise it would be plundered by other actors” who do not “fully” have the same approach.
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The topics of the second day.
The second day of the Trento Economics Festival touches on many topics, including the Italy of the future, the Pnrr, the banking system and the energy transition. Also invited were the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, the head of the Ministry of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, numerous businessmen and executives such as Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone and Luca De Meo, and exponents of the banking world with the president of ABI, Antonio Patuelli, the president of the supervisory board of the ECB, Andrea Enria, and the president of Intesa Sanpaolo, Gian Maria Gros-Pietro.
