States General, Count: "We must reinvent Italy, modernize it and make it more inclusive"

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"These have been very intense days and we haven't closed at all, rather we have opened up". So the premier Giuseppe Conte in the press conference that closes the States General of the Economy, citing 82 meetings and saying that yesterday it started at 8 and closed the work after midnight.

"A hug to Alex Zanardi for his strength of mind, for his ability to resilience- the premier says-. He is the example of the best Italy, which knows how to express not only great champions but also great men. A newspaper hero ".

"It has been very intense work and we have not closed, but we have opened up to civil society, we have met representatives of the productive world, of the world of culture- underlines Conte-. We started by meeting the highest European and international authorities, with reasoning in the world context and we continued by listening and confronted with industry, trade, craft, regions, municipalities, public and private companies, representatives of culture and also many citizens, health professions ". "There has been - he adds - a climate of maximum concentration, very profitable and intense, we have touched problems and suffering, but also a lot of creativity and a lot of ingenuity, a lot of resilience".

"Concrete and frank confrontation on the immediate future"
"It was a confrontation in the name of concreteness, frankness, industriousness: we talked about concrete projects, we also said things that were wrong. Yesterday I met individual traders or citizens choosing among the letters received. We talked about some measures that would be needed immediately. The government continues to monitor the economic and social emergency, but we have also presented a draft plan for the recovery ".

Quote Baricco: "We must reinvent the country"
"We also looked to the future. Baricco expressed a very suggestive concept: we opened the panorama of our mind to the impossible, widened to the unthinkable range of our action. relaunch is not a simple collection of reforms: we realized that reforming the country is not at all enough, we have to reinvent the country we want because the experience was too hard and the challenge too demanding to deal with simple reforms ".

"The States-General strengthen me and the government"
"This dialogue strengthens us, strengthens me and all the ministers. It strengthens us in the objectives, in the lines of intervention on which we want to act" underlines the Prime Minister. "There were no catwalks, here we worked without sparing ourselves, we met many members of society, it gives us great strength".

"In July cut the tax wedge, pursue that road"
"Italy more inclusive: we must give impetus to the reduction of the tax wedge with benefit for the workers: we had already prepared a measure in July. It is a right direction that we must pursue".

"500 euro voucher for 3 years to women managers"
"We have been presented, and we welcome a suggestion, a 500 euro voucher project for three years for women who aspire to become managers. In the first 100 companies only 6 % is led by women, "announces Conte.

"Reduction of VAT hypothesis, no decision so far"
Reduction of VAT "is one of the hypotheses that we have discussed, but we have not decided because it is an expensive measure. But there is concern that the climate of confidence that triggers the consumption circuit. It is a measure under study, this week will already be decisive for such a perspective ".

"Healthy parts are asking for more digital payment"
"All healthy parts of the country are asking us to switch more and more to digital payment and overcome the shadow economy".

"In Ravenna the largest CO2 capture center in the world"
"In Ravenna the largest CO2 capture and storage center in the world will be born".

Green Economy, now new models
Not only great works, but investments that follow innovative models dictated by new priorities: this is the orientation that emerged from the States General of the Green Economy, both in the online event organized by Green Europe, and in the meetings in Rome, at Villa Pamphilij.

"We cannot find ourselves unprepared in the face of Europe's willingness to invest green which, it must be underlined, are investments that benefit not only a single state but the whole area: global warming knows no barriers or borders and this is one more reason to create European debt instruments, "said economist Carlo Cottarelli, director of the Observatory on Italian Public Accounts, speaking at the online summit. Plans are needed to be able to use EU funding, Cottarelli said, and numerous proposals emerged from the meeting.

"Politics reads the crisis that we are experiencing only in an economic sense, while it is urgent to immediately start a radical change of choices: we must change the energy and social model within the next six months," said Legambiente vice president, Edoardo Zanchini. "" The idea that we can start from highways and major works is now obsolete. We environmentalists - he added - are absolutely in favor of investments and simplifications, but our priorities are different: we need more ambitious and concrete policies to face climate change.

Environmental sustainability and innovation are crucial for Italy's green future, said Donatella Bianchi, president of the WWF. Points of reference, he added, will have to be the four instruments put in place in December by the European Commission with the proposals of Sustainable Climate Law, Industrial Strategy and Agri-Food Supply Chain ("Farm to Fork") and National Strategy on Biodiversity. The WWF also needs a climate law that sets the climate neutrality target (zero carbon) and the maximum limit to reach it in 2040.

To ask "loudly that the recovery is centered on the ecological conversion of production models, so as to give an unprecedented impulse to the creation of new jobs" is Sarah Brizzolara, of the Fridays for Future Italia, intervening online. "To achieve that social and environmental justice that cannot exist without one another, as Fridays for Future - he concluded - we asked Europe to anticipate carbon neutrality by 2030".