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September 26, 2020 "Quota 100 was a three-year measure that made up for a social unease that had been created, it served to meet a discomfort caused" by the Fornero reform, "that of people who have seen their pension window extended for many years. It will expire next year as mentioned, it was a temporary offer. The renewal of quota 100 is not on the agenda ".

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said this at the Trento Economy Festival.

"I hope we can, among the various reforms, also do pensions, sit around a table and make a list of hard jobs, that's the best logic," he added.

"Boeri - says Conte - is a university professor and will arrive working at the age of 70, but those who work in blast furnaces, in steel mills ... we cannot expect such a long working life to them. We must differentiate".



Italy can restart


"Restarting means regaining confidence in the fact that Italy has enormous potential. We have to get up again to accelerate, not to stand up as before. Italy lacks nothing to make it. Italy has no reasons. to be satisfied. Italy can, must dare ". 



"Together we win the challenge"


"We have come from very difficult months we have fought and we are still facing an unexpected and unknown pandemic. In recent days, authoritative newspapers - I think of Bloomberg to the Financial Times - have recognized Italy as having managed better than others Countries the emergency, keeping the epidemic under control. As Prime Minister I am proud of these awards: we must all be proud of the exemplary behavior demonstrated by the whole Italian community ".

"The spirit of solidarity and the sense of community that united us in the most difficult months of the pandemic today must not be lost, we must not disunite, unravel, in the crucial phase of reconstruction. I believe that in addition to the challenge of resilience, we can also win that of restarting ", added Conte. 



"We are laying the foundations for paying less taxes"


"We already have electronic invoicing, electronic receipts for all companies start on January 1st. From December 1st we will switch to cashback incentives: in this way we create the conditions for a change in Italian habits and so we also fight the undeclared. We lay the foundations for paying less taxes ". 



"Citizenship income, we are late"


"We are absolutely late on the project of integration into the world of work. We are behind", said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in a video link.

"I confess that in the last few weeks I had two meetings with the competent ministers, we must work in this direction: after the start of the citizenship income reform we must complete this other pole. Reorganize a sort of network to offer a training process and retraining of workers that involves Anpal and the regional offices, we must build a coordinated path. We are working on this, I hope in the first months of 2021 we will also be able to present the other implementation project that crosses citizenship income with the offer We will also have an incentive to re-enter. There are 200 thousand people who could re-enter, they must be accompanied, stimulated and retrained. The income will become the protection belt but also an incentive to re-enter ".



"We pay the damages of a lost twenty years"


"We have lived a lost twenty years in which from 2000 to 2019 we had" an annual "GDP growth of 0.2% while the European average was above this figure. We must recover this. gap. For this we are given money "from the Recovery Fund.

"It is in the interest of all European countries that Italy can get back on track". 



Keep an eye on other countries


As demonstrated by Standard and Poor's estimates of Italian GDP, and Istat data on confidence "there are very positive data" on the Italian economy.

"But Italy will never have a significant rebound: if other European countries get into trouble, we must hope that others can grow and contain this second wave" of coronavirus.