Recovery: from Leu proposals to Conte, more funds to Health

"We presented to the Prime Minister the observations and proposals of Liberi e Uguali for the Italian Recovery Plan. In the document we considered it essential to reaffirm that the funds allocated to Health, equal to just 9 billion, are largely insufficient, even taking into account some transversal programs ".

This was stated by the presidents of the parliamentary groups of LeU Loredana De Petris and Federico Fornaro.

"The National Health Service - explain Fornaro and De Petris - has a decisive strategic importance for us. It is therefore necessary to invest much more resources, especially in terms of community assistance and territorial medicine. Health, therefore, but also the environment, social infrastructures, education and research, sustainable mobility and the south are the cornerstones of our priorities ".

"The entire system of the Next Generation Eu program - continue the two group leaders - links the social and ecological crisis. It is therefore necessary to abandon the micro-planning approach to adopt an overall vision, what Pope Francis has defined as 'Integral Ecology' , thus rejecting any greenwashing operation and the dispersion of resources in micro-projects ".

"In the document, in addition to having pointed out the inadequacy of some of the proposed projects, we ask for the revision, which can no longer be postponed, of the objectives of the PNIEC, massive investments in green and non-blue hydrogen, commitment to a residual use of gas as an energy resource. There is also an urgent need for greater investments in urban forestry and in the circular economy, as well as the energy transition of public housing to allow greater social equity. The objectives of mitigating the climate and environmental crisis also require investments in sustainable agriculture and mobility, they continue. the group leaders of LeU ".

"We consider it a serious error and to be corrected - they add - not having considered social infrastructures as a strategic axis. It is in fact a decisive intervention to guarantee the third strategic line of the NGEU, that of social inclusion. Equally inexplicable is the almost disappearance from the draft of investments aimed at bridging the gap between the South and the rest of Italy, among the main recipients of the 209 billion of the PNNR. Finally, it is necessary to invest in the enhancement of teaching and the right to study in favor of lower incomes and strengthen public research, conclude the presidents of the LeU groups ".