Martella, for publishing, Recovery is a challenge to be won

The resources have not yet been quantified, "but they will live up to the ambition of the project".

The Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council with responsibility for Publishing Andrea Martella intervenes in the Culture Committee in the Chamber to illustrate how he plans to use the European funds from the Recovery Plan and premieres: "For a sector in structural crisis for years with a situation aggravated by the pandemic is a challenge not to be missed. In fact, to be won ".

The government, however, claims the undersecretary, rattling off one by one the interventions of recent years, "has long been committed to reform" and has invested significant resources in recent months.

To help the publishing industry, says Martella, a series of measures already in place such as the tax credit for advertising investments, the tax bonus for digital services and connection costs, the extension and the increase must be stabilized. up to 4 thousand euros of the tax credit for newsstands and distributors that reach municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants, but also the tax credit for the paper and the flat rate of newspaper returns.

Not only.

Because if the pandemic has "further aggravated" the crisis, it is also true that "it has contributed to strengthening the demand for accurate, quality, reliable and fully accessible information to the population".

Hence the government's objective, also with the help of European funds, to "protect the work of journalists" and support businesses, while accompanying the entire sector towards a "necessary transformation".