Recovery Plan, Draghi's three priorities: young people, gender equality and the South

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08 April 2021

Meeting with local authorities

The National Recovery and Resilience Plan has three transversal priorities - 'Youth', 'Gender Equality' and 'South' - and six missions: Digitization, Ecological Transition, Infrastructure, Education and Research, Inclusion and Cohesion and Health.

According to what is learned, the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, explained this during the meeting with local authorities.

Regarding

- explained Draghi during the meeting - we are aiming for a widespread diffusion of the optical fiber throughout the territory and in particular in the South.

We support the country's cultural and creative sectors, hard hit by the pandemic.

For example, we want to make tourism businesses more competitive, and allow them to digitize their services.

As part of the

, we invest in the protection of the territory and water resources.

In particular, we intend to prevent and combat the effects of climate change on hydrogeological instability phenomena and to accelerate, in a decisive way, the reconstruction in areas that have suffered severe earthquakes in recent decades.

As for the

, we intervene in the railways, and in particular in the high speed southbound for freight and passengers;

and in the high speed that connects the North to Europe.

We strengthen regional railway lines and metropolitan nodes, with particular attention to the electrification of the southern lines and the modernization of railway stations.

The road plan includes the maintenance of numerous bridges, viaducts and tunnels, for example on the A24 and A25 motorways that cross Italy from East to West.

As part of the

mission

- explained Draghi - we strengthen the offer of nursery schools and kindergartens, which are essential for achieving true gender equality.

For

, we relaunch vocational training institutes (ITS) and broaden access to subsidies, housing and tax relief for deserving young people in difficult economic and social conditions.

We must invest more in

, and encourage private individuals to do the same, especially in those contexts, such as the South, where the demand for innovation is still lacking.

The interventions for

aim to help women and young people in particular to find decent and well-paid jobs.

We need to strengthen employment services, invest in apprenticeships, promote the creation of

's

.

The Government - explained the head of the Government - has as a priority to help the poorest sections of the population, often the most exposed to the Covid-19 crisis.

Therefore, in the plan there is also an important

intervention of

.

These measures, together with the strengthening of the role of national social services and the recovery of sports infrastructures, are aimed at intervening on the phenomena of marginalization and social degradation and reducing the gaps between the various areas of the country.

With regard to

, the National Recovery and Resilience Plan strengthens local health facilities and services, which have shown serious shortcomings during the pandemic.

We also intervene - assured the head of the government - to replace obsolete technologies in hospitals and improve health information systems.

"We are called to make a great effort to quickly design and implement a historic plan. The Recovery Plan represents an opportunity to carry out those structural reforms that the country has been waiting for for years . It is a great opportunity to be seized and we cannot go wrong, we have no excuse. Thus the Minister of Regional Affairs, Mariastella Gelmini, during the Unified State-Local Authorities Conference. "In this phase - Gelmini underlined - a fundamental comparison between national institutions, autonomies and local authorities: Regions, Municipalities and Provinces.

We are convinced that to design and manage such an important plan we need the active involvement of all institutional levels. We want to fill a gap that we have inherited from the past, we want to know your priorities.

On this - he highlighted - there is great willingness on the part of the Government, and the presence today of Prime Minister Draghi and many ministers prove it '.

Before the summit, the meeting with Salvini. The leader of the League: "Possible to reopen in at least six regions in April"

"Very useful, positive, constructive meeting. We talked about health and work, the only two emergencies that the League is dealing with". So Matteo Salvini at the end of the meeting with the Prime Minister Mario Draghi, which preceded the one with the Regions. "I shared with President Draghi that reopening must be done on the basis of data, of science", said the Northern League secretary. "You cannot live in the red for life. According to the data, there are at least six Italian regions where it could reopen. I expect it can be done in April," said the Northern League leader. "If this Friday and next the data improve, our proposal will be that a decree be approved to return to normality. On this Draghi agrees, he shares the reopening process. Already today, with the old rules, there would be six the regions in the yellow zone, where you can reopen bars and restaurants, where you can go back to work ". So Salvini. For the leader of the League, the new Sostegni decree is "to be approved by April: what Italy needs is an imposing decree with at least 50 billion" of budget variance. "Running on the vaccine level, and if Europe makes a mistake, sleeps or slows down, we need to find a way, as other countries are doing, to go abroad as well because the health of Italians deserves every kind of effort and contract without saving euros on skin of the citizens. And this time too, alas, the European institutions are proving to be old, not in step with the times, not up to the emergency we are experiencing ". So Salvini, leaving Palazzo Chigi after meeting with Prime Minister Mario Draghi.