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03 December 2021 "Plan and collaborate" at all levels: government, territory and private individuals, "proceeding in a coherent and orderly manner". Only in this way will Italy be able to seize the historic opportunity represented by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Mario Draghi says this by speaking in a video message sent to the Guido Carli Foundation on the occasion of the event: "The new world".



"The National Recovery and Resilience Plan is a historic opportunity to make industry and the economy more innovative and sustainable. It also represents an extraordinary opportunity to reduce inequalities: gender, income, generational. To achieve these goals , we must proceed in a coherent and - as Carli would say - orderly manner ".



Therefore, for the premier, "we must collaborate and we must plan". Thanking the President Romana Liuzzo and the Honorary President Gianni Letta for the invitation, Draghi recalled that "Guido Carli was a fundamental figure for our Republic. Member of the National Council, Governor of the Bank of Italy, several times Minister and Senator . He represented Italy in key post-war moments, from Bretton Woods to the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, "added Draghi.



"His foresight, his depth of thought, his convinced Europeanism still constitute a point of reference for those who work in institutions. Today I want to focus on the period in which he led the Bank of Italy, from 1960 to 1975. Those were years of expansion for the Italian economy, but also for social tensions ", the premier still remembers. "In an interview in 1977, after his resignation as Governor, Carli questioned what had gone wrong. In particular, he criticized the inadequacy of social investments that should have accompanied the country's industrial transformation.



Italy lacked a 'coherent system of public presence', Carli reasoned, 'within which the initiatives of individuals could usefully unfold', these are his words.

In essence, the programming was lacking. "A much more precious teaching" in this restart phase, his words must serve as a warning.

It is valid for the government, for local authorities, and for the private sector ".