Confindustria, Bonomi: "The MEF leaves the parties 8 billion on the maneuver"

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01 December 2021 The president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, speaking at the public meeting organized by Confindustria Brindisi, referring to the Maneuver, commented: "We had learned from the press agencies that there was an agreement on how to use the famous fund of the eight billion, today we learn that the agreement was on the number of amendments to be presented ".

"We have proposed a strong contribution cut in the tax wedge because it is universal, it applies to everyone, not like the Irpef cuts that are proposed today, of which we read, where in reality those who are benefited are incomes between 40 and 45 thousand euros, not This budget law - he added - was supposed to be the first brick of a great reorganization, but single interventions are continually made, not within a strategy. And I am sorry to see that the Mef has abdicated its role of political direction , leaving eight billion on the table to the parties to decide how to divide them ", reiterating that" we need to make courageous choices that at this moment we find it hard to see. We need to make medium-long term choices, because we are talking about a medium and long term battle, a health, economic battle.Unfortunately I see a battle of the flags. This is not the right way ".

"The road, as happened in March last year, should be trade unions, government and businesses sitting together because if we want to give an answer to poverty and we have to give it, then let's start looking at what tools we have today" continued the president of Confindustria. "We have the citizenship income, the single allowance, the tax reform, the general reorganization of family deductions. We have four interventions that do not talk to each other. But is it ever possible? Every time someone makes a provision to say that they do. , but never in an overall vision of the country, to give answers ". Also because the emergency is to create more work: "For us the emergency is to create more work not to pre-retire someone who has it, as happens with other measures"."So I ask - he added - but the problem of companies is firing or finding the professional figures we lack? We don't want to fire, we want to grow and we want to hire, and this must be very clear".

In another passage of his speech, Bonomi observed: "This should be the moment when everyone focuses their efforts on the material and moral advancement of the country. This is the great challenge we face and instead we must register that we are returning to the battle for the ephemeral electoral consensus. The proof comes from this Budget Law ". "The budget law is particular, perhaps the last one that will be able to use such an important deficit because from 2022 we have to review the Stability Pact, the state aid policy, and the interventions of the ECB" adding: "Giovanni, women and workers fixed-term are the categories that have suffered the most. Youth unemployment rates are to be shuddered: in Italy they represent 26% of the unemployed,against the European average of 16% ", he said referring to the latest Istat data. 

 "As it is structured today, the super Green Pass does not convince us very much, because the more you put particularities in the application, the more difficult it becomes to apply it. So, I think you have to take note that there is a resurgence in numbers and move towards an obligation to vaccinate, with all the difficulties ", starting with" how you make it mandatory ". "The super Green Pass - he reiterated - becomes difficult to apply, so some reflection must be done".

"There is little talk" of the fact that "the transitions also have a social cost", because "as we have set them up, with an ideological, fundamentalist approach, especially on the part of Commissioner Timmermans, we must say that entire pieces of the Italian industrial supply chains will be turned off, and it means hundreds of thousands of jobs, "Bonomi later said. "Making the transitions has costs. Opportunities will open up, we are very convinced, but first we will have costs." "The European Green Deal, as it is conceived today - explained Bonomi - will cost the EU 3,500 billion in investments, for Italy we are talking about 650 billion. % of the investments necessary for the European Green Deal will have to be covered by our companies, the private sector "."And how do we - Bonomi asked - support those investments if on the one hand we have skyrocketing raw material costs and skyrocketing energy costs?".

"A billion on citizenship income, if it were actually for the fight against poverty, in which there are 2 million Italians to whom we must give an answer, it would go, but as it is structured today, it has shown that it is unable to intercept the incompetent of the North and has become a disincentive to go to work in the South ", Bonomi observed.

"As for active employment policies, we said that that was not the right way and that it would not work. And on the Public Employment Centers we put 4 billion. To an audience of entrepreneurs I ask how many of you are hiring by resorting to Public Centers for use ".

From the audience of those present, no one answered.