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June 15, 2020 After weeks of waiting and speculation, the measures that the committee of experts has put in place to restart the country after the coronavirus emergency are announced. Vouchers for families and businesses to overcome the digital divide, incentives and new rules to facilitate the transition to less polluting cars, strengthening of the garden bonus for private greenery, universal allowance for children and tax credit to make hotel facilities more modern. And then: incentives for contractual welfare and tax relief for contract renewals, aid to 4.0 plus companies for large automation projects, artificial intelligence and blockchain, tax advantage for the south and increase in invalidity pensions.

These are just some of the measures, which will have a positive impact on citizens and businesses and which will commit public resources in the near future, foreseen by the masterplan that the government has developed for the States General.   

There are 9 macro chapters - including digitization, business and work, justice, the environment - which contain 54 actions to be carried out, from the push to fiber optics to tax reform and the fight against tax evasion, which however remains confined to a generic title.

 DIGITALIZATION : The chapter that aims to create a 'completely digital country' envisages a 'single national fiber optic network' and the '5G network', but also vouchers for families and businesses aimed at overcoming the digital divide, a unique network for so-called 'white areas' (in which it is not convenient to invest for a private individual) and ultra-fast internet in rural areas to develop agriculture 4.0. Investments also in the robotics, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity sectors.

INFRASTRUCTURE : Five mini-plans foreseen by the measures for 'faster and more efficient infrastructures'. The following are hypothesized: the completion of the rail and road network (from high speed to the strengthening of regional transport), the creation of smart districts on hubs such as ports and airports; the modernization of the water network with a dam plan; the revival of sports facilities; and finally urban and rural construction interventions, with "strengthening of the bonus for private urban green areas" and the strengthening of penitentiary construction.

SUSTAINABILITY : Economy and environment are united in the chapter on sustainability. It foresees: investments for the energy transition also with the creation of a solar park in Italy and bonuses for the installation of photovoltaic panels on agricultural production buildings; the development of the circular economy and the green economy, gentle mobility (the 'Italy on a bike' project), remediation and also interventions on hydrogeological risk.

ENTERPRISES AND WORK : For companies, confirmation of the 4.0 plan arrives, which is strengthened through incentives for large automation, artificial intelligence, blockcha also training to retrain workers, support for Italian exports and so-called reshoring for the repatriation of production activities in the country. For workers, on the other hand, income protection is envisaged (with tax relief on contractual renewals, the fight against pirated bargaining, incentives for contractual welfare, the promotion of second-level contracts) and also a higher quality of employment that looks at the remodeling of times, the elimination of the most precarious forms, the co-management of workers in the company, the generational relay.

PRODUCTION CHAINS: Tourism, cars, artistic heritage, fishing-agriculture and steel are the supply chains on which interventions are planned. An articulated plan, which also passes through promotion, is designed for tourism, with the commitment of a tax credit for the modernization of hotel structures, a project for the redevelopment of villages and a 4.0 farm plan. For the automotive sector, incentives and regulations are put in place for a faster transition to less polluting vehicles but also support for research on batteries and alternative propulsion systems.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION : The key words for the PA are sburocratization and digitalization. The centralized purchase of ITC goods and services and a plan to strengthen skills is also envisaged.

SCHOOL AND RESEARCH: It is a rich plan for school and research, which aims not only at the adaptation of structures and e-learning - much used during the lockdown period - but also projects to bring research closer to business and projects to adapt skills to the needs of the economy and society, looking at digital and the environment.-

JUSTICE AND THE TAX : This is the chapter of the reforms that also serve to make Italy more attractive. In addition to the reform of the Civil Code, which is already being examined by Parliament, we look at the reform of justice, company law and the reorganization of the discipline of the sports code. Only the title for 'tax reform and tax evasion' is indicated.

A MORE EQUAL AND INCLUSIVE ITALY: From strengthening the health of the territory to supporting parenting with the arrival of a single universal allowance for children and also aid for education, from female empowerment, to the plan for the South 2030 : this is the chapter that looks with attention to people and also to the future with commitment also for young people, with funding for projects and the arrival of orientation platforms.