The budget law “ensures the tightening of public finances and responds to the immediate needs” of families and companies. Giorgia Meloni returns to defend the economic maneuver. The Prime Minister, speaking via videoconference at the event “L’Italia delle Regioni”, the first Festival promoted by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces that takes place at Palazzo Lombardia in Milan, explains that “although he has been in office for just over a month, this government put in place a budget law that guarantees the stability of public finances and at the same time offers responses to immediate emergencies, protecting families and companies”. Meloni also takes stock of Pnrr, health and autonomy. On the first point, the Prime Minister explains that “Next Generation Eu represented a first response at European level but today it is clear to everyone that it is no longer enough because it was an imagined plan to face the consequences of the pandemic and could not have taking into account the impact that the war in Ukraine would have had on our economic, productive and social fabric. We need to do more today at European level, starting with the issue of expensive energy.” “The Pnrr is an important legacy, but obviously it is a important legacy if these opportunities are not lost”, explains Meloni, announcing that “the Government decided to reactivate the Pnrr control room to monitor the state of implementation of the objectives, identify the best solutions to overcome critical issues, quickly, effectively and cohesively , involving all actors on the ground to establish a collaboration essential to achieve the objectives».
The Government – adds the Prime Minister – “on the interventions foreseen by the Pnrr” will have to “assess the priorities because the cost of raw materials puts the implementation of these interventions at serious risk”. With regard to health, Meloni ensures that “the reinforcement of the SNS represents a priority issue for me and for the government, starting obviously from the need to promote health care closer to the territories and a more correct and efficient use of the resources of the National Fund of health”. «Infrastructures, security, ecological transition, energy supply, digital innovation, social and well-being policies, family support and birth rates are themes that constitute decisive challenges for the future of this nation and that we will only be able to face if we know how to implement the right synergies between State, Regions, Autonomous Provinces, local authorities – continues Meloni – First the pandemic and then the war in Ukraine projected us into a completely new world and into a geopolitical and economic context in which at all levels we can give cohesion and unity and, from my point of view, in a long-term vision, because the structural problems we face are mainly the result of the short-sighted policies of the past”. «In energy, for example – continues the Prime Minister – the EU and several Member States Members, including Italy, have preferred in the past to gradually increase their level of dependence on other nations rather than implementing energy independence measures. 🇧🇷 Today we pay for these choices and therefore we have to do everything possible to remedy, at least working on common and structural solutions. To the short-sightedness of the past it is good not to add the selfishness of the present”. With regard to autonomy, however, the objective is to “reinforce cohesion and solidarity at the national level”, because with the reforms under Title V, conflicts between the powers of the State have increased, “with all that this also implies”. in terms of delays and effectiveness”. the opportunities offered by Pnrr resources”.
Meloni reiterates that the Government strongly believes in collaboration between the State and the municipalities and ensures a differentiated autonomy: «The Government wants to promote its implementation quickly, in a broader framework of fundamental reforms to strengthen the current institutional structure of the State. The objective is greater responsibility for all: Regions, municipalities and the State. Differentiated autonomy will never be a pretext to leave some parts of the Italian territory behind: we will work for its virtuous implementation, we want to guarantee cohesion and national unity”. «The greater autonomy that each Region will be able to achieve is aimed at carrying out reforms to improve the efficiency and quality of its services, not to create inequality among citizens. The government’s hope is that differentiated autonomy may constitute a challenge for the territories, a fair stimulus to bridge the existing infrastructural, economic, health and social diversities”, concludes Meloni.
Source: IL Tempo
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