From Rome
In 2009, Europe asked Italy to present a competition law every year.
Rome voted only one, in 2017. Brussels returned to the charge this year and conditions its 191 billion in financial aid to the adoption of a competition reform.
The bill, which was to be presented before the end of July, was adopted in the Council of Ministers on Thursday evening.
It remains to make it vote.
Because, in Italy, where concessions and public contracts are particularly opaque, to open a public market is to attack the very heart of a system which combines perpetual income from situations, local political interests and sometimes even mafia infiltration.
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Also, the task is particularly difficult:
"The draft law on competition is the biggest obstacle that
Mario Draghi
has encountered so far",
judge
La Stampa.
Moreover, he could not take the project as far as he would have liked and had to postpone the most sensitive subjects, such as private beaches,
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