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February 14, 2021

After the oath and the first council of ministers yesterday, Prime Minister Draghi and his team of ministers are working on the next dossiers to be addressed from the health to the economic front.

On Wednesday the first test of the confidence of the Senate Chamber 

In the first meeting of the executive Draghi made an appeal to the ministers: 'Let's work together to restart the country.

The premier opened the meeting with a thank you to the head of state.

Then he listed the Executive's priorities, starting from an assumption, various participants in the meeting say: that one of these priorities will be to "secure the country", also thanks to the work of a cohesive team without "vested interests" ".

"Ours will be an environmentalist government," he said. 

"Lost years of school, the economy suffers, lay the basis for the revival"

"I remind you that the last government has seen thousands of deaths, loss of school years, because they are lost years" said Draghi, speaking of what the pandemic has created in the country.

"The economy is suffering, we need a cultural and social impact, this is our program: first of all the challenge to the pandemic, with an acceleration of the vaccination campaign".

Draghi then assured us that "we have a prospect in front of us", we can "weave a basis for the future revival".

"I recommend, sobriety in communication"

As in his style, marked by confidentiality, Draghi would have invited his ministers to be sober in communication.

The premier would have recommended moderating the statements to the press.

And, coincidentally, at the end of the meeting, the 23 new ministers left the presidency of the Council without speaking to the press and TV.

The Council of Ministers has started the process for the establishment of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, the green department that will be led by physicist Roberto Cingolani.

It aims, as explained by authoritative government sources, to approve its establishment and to give the green light to the 'green' department within 10 days.

Orlando convenes the social partners for February 14 and 16

The Minister of Labor and Social Policies, Andrea Orlando, has called for tomorrow, Sunday 14 and Tuesday 16 February, a series of meetings with the social partners to start the listening and interlocution on the most pressing issues of the Ministry's action.

The meetings will take place via videoconference.

This was announced by a note from the dicastery.

Stefani: for Draghi, priority is the vaccination plan

"Professor Draghi was immediately very pragmatic, he made a great invitation to unity because it was a disastrous year, which really created serious problems and economic suffering with dozens of thousands of deaths. He said that the school has lost years and not months. And then he told us that the priority is the vaccination plan and that we still have to deal with the health emergency, after which, he added, we must look to the future "he said. the Minister for Disabilities, Erika Stefani, referring what Draghi said during the CdM.

First of all, Draghi must now finalize the

with which he will present himself in Parliament to ask for trust.

Yesterday the formal act of calling the Chambers for communications by the Prime Minister was published in the Official Journal.

Mario Draghi will speak as scheduled on Wednesday 17 at 10 in the Senate chamber to illustrate the programmatic lines of his government, which will be followed by the debate and the first vote for confidence.

At 11.30 he will go to the Chamber to file his programmatic declarations, which will however be the subject of debate and vote on the following day.

Draghi will also be working on

next week

.

among the first issues to be addressed for the new executive

.

On 25 February the extension to the ban on moving between regions provided for by the decree law bequeathed by Conte Bis will expire: he will have to choose whether to continue until 5 March, when the

expires

, or whether to proceed otherwise.

Within about ten days, there is another delicate deadline: February 24 is the deadline for submitting the

offer

and the funds on

.

Draghi's international debut as premier could take place on Tuesday 23 February in Brussels for the

, which brings together, in the presence, the European affairs ministers, a mandate currently maintained by the premier. On Monday, however, the Minister of Economy, Daniele Franco, will participate in videoconference at the

, and the next day at

. On Thursday 18, however, also on video, there is the

of the ministers of health, but for Roberto Speranza it will not be the first time. The premier will then make his debut at

, scheduled for videoconference on 25 and 26 February.