Mario Draghi was clear, asking for confidence in the Senate: the priority is fighting the virus. “Fighting the pandemic is a national responsibility, a trench where we all fight together.” He talked about this first of all and then added a personal note. “In thanking, once again, the President of the Republic for the honor of the office that has been assigned to me, I would like to tell you that there has never been, in my long professional life, a moment of such intense emotion and such ample responsibility».
Draghi thanked his predecessor Giuseppe Conte, “Which has faced a health and economic emergency situation as it had never happened since the unification of Italy”. However, he differs from what happened: “We undertake to inform citizens sufficiently in advance, as far as compatible with the rapid evolution of the pandemic, of any change in the rules”.
By asking for trust, he reaffirmed the need for unity. “Today, unity is not an option, unity is a duty. But it is a duty guided by what I am sure unites us all: love for Italy“. Draghi said his government was not born from the failure of politics and in doing so he mentioned Cavour and the reforms.
«Today we have, as happened to the governments of the immediate post-war period, the possibility, or rather the responsibility, to start a New Reconstruction. Italy recovered from the disaster of the Second World War with pride and determination and laid the foundations of the economic miracle thanks to investments and work. In mutual trust, in national brotherhood, in the pursuit of a civic and moral redemption. Political forces that were ideologically distant if not opposed to that Reconstruction collaborated. I am sure that even in this New Reconstruction no one will miss their contribution in the distinction of roles and identities. This is our mission as Italians: to deliver a better and fairer country to our children and grandchildren ».
Mario Draghi in his keynote speech added: «I express to you, who are the elected representatives of the Italians, the hope that the desire and the need to build a better future will wisely guide our decisions. In the hope that the young Italians who will take our place, even here in this classroom, will thank us for our work and have nothing to blame for our selfishness ».
VACCINATIONS
The Covid vaccination campaign is the first challenge. “We need to mobilize all the energies we can count on, using civil protection, the armed forces, the many volunteers. We must not limit vaccinations within specific places, often not yet ready: we have a duty to make them possible in all available structures, public and private. Taking advantage of the experience gained with tampons which, after an initial delay, were also allowed outside the restricted circle of authorized hospitals. And above all by learning from countries that have moved faster than us by immediately having adequate quantities of vaccines. Speed is essential not only to protect individuals and their social communities, but now also to reduce the chances of other variants of the virus arising.
Local healthcare will have to be redesigned with basic proximity services. The home as the main place of care and the hospital only for the most difficult situations.
SCHOOL
The premier in charge aims to recover the hours lost in teaching last year and aiming to reshape the school calendar. “Not only do we need to quickly return to a normal school timetable, even spreading it over different time slots, but we must do everything possible, in the most suitable ways, to recover the hours of face-to-face teaching lost last year, especially in the southern regions where distance learning has encountered greater difficulties. It is necessary to review the design of the annual school course. Align the school calendar to the needs deriving from the experience lived since the beginning of the pandemic. The return to school must be done safely ». Draghi paid particular attention to the Technical Institutes to be enhanced given that the need for graduates of technical institutes in the digital and environmental area is estimated at around 3 million in the five-year period 2019-23.
AMBIENT
Mario Draghi quotes Pope Francis: «Natural tragedies are the earth’s response to our mistreatment. And I think that if I asked the Lord what he thinks, I don’t think he would tell me that it is a good thing: we have ruined the work of the Lord ”. Climate change is a priority to be faced with a new approach: “digitization, agriculture, health, energy, aerospace, cloud computing, schools and education, territorial protection, biodiversity, global warming and the greenhouse effect, are different faces of a multifaceted challenge that sees at the center the ecosystem in which all human actions will develop ».
WOMEN AND WORK
Draghi said the government will have to protect all workers, but “It would be a mistake to protect all economic activities indifferently”. For some there is a need for a change. “The choice of which activities to protect and which to accompany in the change is the difficult task that economic policy will have to face in the coming months”. Young people, women and the self-employed paid the highest price. Draghi looks to these for a strategy to support businesses and work.
“True gender equality does not mean a pharisaic respect for women’s quotas required by law: it requires equal competitive conditions between genders to be guaranteed. We intend to work in this sense, aiming at a rebalancing of the wage gap and a welfare system that allows women to devote the same energy to their career as their male colleagues, overcoming the choice between family or work “.
TOURISM
Tourism is one of the business models to change, an activity that before the pandemic accounted for 14 percent of our total economic activities. “Companies and workers in that sector must be helped to emerge from the disaster created by the pandemic. But without forgetting that our tourism will have a future if we do not forget that it thrives on our ability to preserve, that is, at least not waste, cities of art, places and traditions that successive generations over many centuries have been able to preserve and have handed down to us “.
FOREIGN POLICY
The government will be pro-European and Atlanticist, in line with Italy’s historical anchors: the European Union, the Atlantic Alliance, the United Nations. The euro is irreversible for Draghi. “Supporting this government means sharing the irreversibility of the choice of the euro, it means sharing the perspective of an increasingly integrated European Union that will arrive at a common public budget capable of supporting countries in times of recession. Nation states remain the reference of our citizens, but in the areas defined by their weakness they surrender national sovereignty to acquire shared sovereignty. Indeed, in our convinced belonging to the destiny of Europe we are even more Italian, even closer to our territories of origin or residence. We must be proud of Italy’s contribution to the growth and development of the European Union. Without Italy there is no Europe. But, outside of Europe there is less Italy. There is no sovereignty in solitude ».
NEXT GENERATION EU
The strategy for Next Generation EU projects must be transversal and synergistic, based on the principle of co-benefits, that is, with the ability to impact multiple sectors simultaneously, in a coordinated manner. «We will have to learn to prevent rather than repair, not only by deploying all the technologies at our disposal but also by investing in the awareness of the new generations that“ every action has a consequence ”. In the coming weeks we will strengthen the strategic dimension of the Program, in particular with regard to the related objectives the production of energy from renewable sources, air and water pollution, the fast rail network, energy distribution networks for electric propulsion vehicles, hydrogen production and distribution, digitalization, broadband and 5G communication networks ».
Draghi said that Parliament will be constantly informed both on the overall system and on sector policies regarding the Recovery Plan. For the premier the reform of the public administration cannot be postponed. “The clearing of the backlog accumulated during the pandemic is particularly urgent. The offices will be asked to prepare a plan for the disposal of the backlog and communicate it to the citizens. The reform will have to move on two directives: investments in connectivity with the creation of efficient platforms that are easy to use by citizens; continuous updating of the skills of public employees, also by selecting the best skills and attitudes in hiring quickly, efficiently and safely ».
It will have to be done a profound revision of the personal income tax with the aim of simplifying and rationalizing the tax structure, gradually reducing the tax burden and preserving progressivity. For taxes, an overall intervention is needed, not single changes.
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