"In the decree that we are completing, there will be very important measures in support of companies also in the form of grants to support capitalization, investments and innovation". Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri said this in a hearing in the Chamber, after observing that the measures to support the liquidity of the two previous decrees "net of initial difficulties are bearing the expected first fruits".
Garanzia Italia has already issued a first loan of 10 million euros and "there are 170 potential operations in progress for 12.5 billion currently under study and under investigation", added the minister. Regarding SMEs and the intervention of the Central Guarantee Fund, "Mcc reports 65,800 applications between March 17 and April 30, of which 31,411 accepted, the latter generated an amount of over 4.6 billion in funding, of which 970 million for operations up to 25,000 euros ".
The requests for a moratorium on loans, one of the cornerstones of the government's strategy to provide emergency liquidity, "at April 24, amounted to 1.6 million for 177 billion euros in total", underlined Gualtieri. "Slightly less than half of the applications - he continued - came from companies for loans for 120 billion, 880,000 applications were from families for total loans of around 54 billion, 50,000 applications concerned the suspension of installments on the first home loan (access to the Gasparrini fund) for an average amount of approximately € 90,000 ". Gualtieri defined the acceptance rate of applications as "very high", at around 99%.
The measures decided by the government to provide liquidity to businesses, between the 400 billion export guarantees and the approximately 240 billion moratoriums, "are among the largest in Europe with a size greater than the interventions of other countries" and equal to "over 40% of the national GDP, assured the head of the MEF speaking of the 'liquidity decree'.