These are difficult times for Italian businesses, which will face new price increases in the year that has just started. Electricity and gas bills in 2025 could cost the entire Italian business system 13.7 billion euros more than in 2024, an increase of 19.2%. In total, total spending should reach 85.2 billion: 65.3 of this […]
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Bureaucracy and too many laws cost companies 103 billion per year
One of Italy’s dark evils. Considered an enemy to be defeated by the center-right, held responsible (in words) and increased (in actions) by the left. Bureaucracy, the complexity of the rules and the disproportionate number of laws currently in force continue to be one of the critical points on which the government has decided to […]
The great crisis in the South: more pensioners than workers
The proportion of pensions paid to employees is one to one, but in the South it has exceeded this and there are more pensioners than workers. This is what the CGIA highlights, according to which in Italy pensions paid to citizens are 22,772,000 and employees are 23,099,000, while in the regions of the South and […]
Minimum wage, also rejected by the CGIA: “It is not the solution to the problem of the poor”
Another cold shower for the proposal, perhaps the only one, that unites the left, that of the minimum wage. The idea was rejected by the Study Office of the CGIA of Mestre: “As the CNEL also had the opportunity to point out, the problem of poor workers does not seem to be attributable to minimum […]
Because you run the risk of working more informally with minimum wage.
It may seem counterintuitive, but if a minimum wage of 9 euros per hour is introduced, there may be a risk of seeing an increase in informal employment in our country, especially in sectors where minimum wages are well below the currently recommended threshold. Bill recently submitted to Parliament. This critical issue is highlighted in […]
Every 9 minutes in Italy theft happens (and most go unpunished)
Theft every nine minutes is an ever-present problem for traders and craftsmen who deal with “cracks” and the like every day, and thieves get away with it in most cases. In 2021, 56,782 thefts were recorded in our country, an increase of 10.8% compared to 2000, which means 156 robberies per day, 6.5 thefts per […]
Who will retire in 5 years?
Over the next five years, the Italian labor market will need 3.8 million workers, of whom more than 70% (2.7 million) will replace people destined to retire and with more than one million new entrants (28.3% of the total). will be linked. Economic growth is expected between 2023 and 2027. Therefore, according to the current […]
Public spending explodes, due to health spending
In 2022, total expenditure on maintaining the structure of the State reached 115.2 billion euros, a level never reached before. A record amount, the latter more than double the 51.5 billion that the Public Administration spent last year on investments that are used to create or implement services (factories and machinery in education, health, transport, […]
“Almost impossible goal”. Cgia crushes Pnrr expenses
Achieving the goal of spending all Pnrr money by 2026 “will be next to impossible”. Criticism of the plan comes from the Cgia de Mestre, according to which if Italy does not manage to spend the annual quota of EU cohesion funds, equal to 9 billion euros, it will hardly be able to use the […]
Jewelers, tailors, shoemakers: jobs no one wants to do anymore
Italian craftsmen surrendered. In the last 10 years, they have decreased by almost 300 thousand units. The data comes from the CGIA: “Artisanships are declining, weakened by the rent boom, taxes, insufficient generational turnover, shrinking turnover caused by historic competition from large-scale distribution, and electronic commerce for several years as well.” In the last 10 […]