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May 31, 2020

"This policy is likely to do more damage than Covid": this is the warning launched by the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, in an interview with Repubblica. "I don't want to go like a Cassandra, but the narrative that once the pandemic has passed everything will return as before is a beautiful and good falsehood," he added, "the reality is another. I'm not looking for controversy, I'm not against a priori. I am trying to put everyone in front of reality: entrepreneurs are deeply concerned. In the autumn many companies will not reopen, others will have to downsize. "

"We don't know what will happen tomorrow, what will happen to the orders, orders, suppliers," said the number one industrialist, "the government has blocked layoffs until August. But the job, the jobs, you don't they manage and are not created by decree. We need a strategy, a vision, an idea of ​​which country we want to build. We must stop looking exclusively at the electoral dividend. "

For Bonomi "said the governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, we must focus on growth: for twenty five years our country has been losing productivity, moving further and further away from competitors. And growth also depends on where resources are allocated : for decades, current expenditure (the electoral dividend) has increased at the expense of investments in infrastructure, health, innovation and research, in policies for environmental and social sustainability, in active employment policies rather than drowning them in the income of citizenship or in navigators. By the way, does anyone know where they went? It's not done like that, it's an unacceptable waste of resources. "