“The will of the government is there and it is visible” and “I would like to have an involvement that is not harmful, in the interest not of the individual, but of the nation”, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this afternoon, addressing the unions in meeting at Palazzo Chigi on reforms and main provisions in economic and fiscal matters. “We can think of the great strategies assuming all the responsibilities”, underlined the prime minister, noting that “choices have to be made, so the question is: do we want to try to make these choices together?”.
“If there is a real will to do something, the right solutions can be found. I want to try to understand if we want to have a constructive approach to merit respecting differences », he added. The topics addressed by Meloni were numerous. From Pnr. “We are working on RepowerEu and on verifying the existing Pnrr, to make a coupon that takes into account the changed scenario of the current reality”, said Meloni, highlighting that “the debate” about the Pnrr “should not be ideological, but pragmatic” The Pnrr, underlined the prime minister again, “is one of the main themes, a great opportunity” and “the resources have to reach the ground to be spent on more strategic things”.
The prime minister also announced the creation at Palazzo Chigi of a government observatory on the issue of purchasing power. «Salaries, monitoring of prices and pricing policy, monitoring the implementation and effects of the measures that we have introduced and that perhaps have not given the expected results, such as the reduction of VAT on products for early childhood, this is the most relevant topic , from which the others also depart”, said Meloni. “I will try to be present in person so that together we can unravel the heart of this skein”, he added.
“Today’s nomination – continued the prime minister – is part of the path of discussion and dialogue that this government has decided to establish with the social partners, a necessary and opportune comparison to give us a more cadenced work organization and for a structured dialogue and I hope it will be fruitful, in accordance with the priorities that the country has and that the government has decided to adopt and the respective positions on specific issues.” Another important issue was that of pensions. do Trabalho the monitoring of social security expenses. It will be useful for mapping all expenses and also for assessing the effects of some measures in terms of company redundancies and generational turnover. The first table will be on pension advances, then work will focus on strengthening the social security system, with particular attention to future pensions. We must guarantee the stability of the system and avoid the emergence of a social bomb in the coming decades”, underlined the prime minister.
With regard to the fiscal delegation, «the objective is the global reform of the system, with the progressive reduction of Irpef fees to reduce the tax burden. In our view, this means significantly expanding the lowest step to include many more workers”, said the Prime Minister, explaining that “we envisioned including a series of deductions for employees, including transport”. “Furthermore, we want to make the question of benefits and exemption from the employer’s contribution structural for workers with children born”, continued Meloni.
The unions’ reaction to the meeting confirmed the divergences already highlighted on other occasions: the leader of the Cisl, Luigi Sbarra, maintained that the table was “very important” because it resumed the threads of the dialogue; the CISL will participate in the next thematic meetings to negotiate concrete advances for workers and retirees and “will be stuck in the negotiations knowing that you cannot have one foot on the tables and the other on the streets”. On the other hand, the general secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, expressed a “not positive” opinion, because “there were no results”: thus, the mobilization continues and on the 24th of June the CGIL will be in the streets in defense of the Constitution against differentiated autonomy. Finally, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, leader of UIL, is willing to discuss things, but points out that the merits were not discussed and that the previous tables did not produce great results.
Source: IL Tempo
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