School, Conte: we are working to open before Christmas

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November 23, 2020 "We will try to open schools before Christmas, we are working for this". Thus the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, guest of Lilli Gruber at "Otto e mezzo" on La7.

"We are a free and democratic state, we cannot enter homes and say how many people sit at the table. There will be limitations on social occasions in general: bingo, parties, these things we must absolutely contain" added Conte. "We want to reduce the opportunities for socializing but to allow the tradition very dear to us of the exchange of gifts, the so-called shopping. In this sense it is counterproductive to limit the opening hours of the shops. We will try to allow the opening until hours that allow us to avoid the gatherings. We want to run the economy, avoiding gatherings ".

"In the third quarter we had a GDP of 16.1% and I am confident that with the monitoring system that allows us to intervene much more limited than the generalized lockdown, I believe that there will be a good recovery in this last quarter and next year. If we continue so Italy will be among the countries that will stand out for their greater resilience ", said Conte.

On the

"we are not late", thanks also to the work done during the States General, and soon there will be a new confrontation between the government and Parliament and then with the social partners, said the prime minister. "The States General were not a catwalk. We listened to everyone, and then we set the priorities: digitization, green change, investments in the education supply chain. All this is not done in a day. We are not late: at light of the work done we are now in the drafting phase of the projects, we hope to be able to return to confrontation in Parliament after having made a further step in the Giae which is a commission that gathers all the ministers, and then with the social partners ", he explained.

"We have a lot of resources, we have to know how to spend them, we have huge resources in the budget law, we have European structural funds. We don't lack the resources, but we need to change pace. This is what Europe is asking of us and that is what we must do "said the prime minister.

"Tomorrow we have a council of ministers, tomorrow we must close this game" Conte said, answering the question about the next

commissioner

. The name? "Don't let me anticipate it. There is a proposing minister, a concertante minister, there is a Council of Ministers ...".

"I

only

met

during the consultations, I spoke to him two or three times, even during his illness, when I called him. It is not a matter of personal courtesy, it is a political question, there is a willingness to dialogue clear and in the distinction of roles ", added the premier. 

With

"we talked, we even met on a recent occasion", but "there was no need" to ask him for advice, "not out of arrogance or arrogance: I trust my Minister of the Economy and economists who work at Mef "this is the response of Giuseppe Conte.

"Italy collaborated with Donald Trump, we worked.

We had a long conversation

with

, I caught sensitivity in line with the political project we are pursuing and in line with the European Union. I believe that the confrontation with the Union Europea will be profitable "continued the Prime Minister.