The "despair" and "alienation" spread throughout the country.
Mario Draghi has them well in mind as he sets the three crucial weeks for his government.
Palazzo Chigi and Montecitorio are besieged for a few hours in the afternoon by a group of demonstrators, including some violent ones, who ask to reopen and parade a few meters from the premier's office.
Reopening, yes, but safely, is the goal which Draghi - who condemned the violence in the last press conference - works.
The epidemiological data and the trend of the vaccination campaign recorded this week will be crucial to define the date on which we can begin to loosen the grip.
A point with Draghi ministers and technicians could make it in the second half of the week.
But the premier has already indicated to start planning how to reopen - it is reasoned in ministerial circles - when the time comes, starting with protocols that are not too rigid for activities that are already in great trouble.
It is a job that the Prime Minister carries out in contact with the Minister Roberto Speranza but also with Franco Locatelli of the CTS and the Commissioner Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, whom he saw at Palazzo Chigi in the afternoon.
How to enter the vaccination data in the parameters to reopen is one of the topics under study: for sure, government sources observe, there will be no real reopening before having secured the most elderly and frail.
Also for this reason it is difficult for the grip of the closures to be significantly relaxed before the end of April.
But as of now we are working to study how to allow cinemas and theaters, bars and restaurants, gyms, fairs and events to restart "safely".
The CTS has begun to examine the new protocols for the shows but it is also looking with great attention to a crucial sector in great trouble such as that of tourism.
The new decree for businesses, with support for companies closed due to Covid, and the Recovery plan are the two other chapters to be closed by the end of the month.
In addition to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, which Draghi will illustrate to the Chambers on April 26 and 27, another three or four decrees could soon arrive in the Council of Ministers.
In addition to the decree for companies, work is being carried out on the 'accompanying' measures for Recovery: a decree for simplifications, one for hiring in the public administration and one to design the governance of the plan (but it is not yet said: the rule could be inserted in one of the other two measures).
The governance issue is very sensitive for parties.
Deficit for 40 billion, check fund 'excluded' from Recovery
- Create immediately the ad hoc fund for the works excluded from the Recovery.
While refining the numbers of the new macroeconomic framework to be presented with the Def, the government is also working in parallel to close the Recovery and Resilience Plan to be presented in Europe and, among the latest news, is considering financing thanks to the "powerful" deviation that he is also preparing to ask the Chambers for the fund announced by Daniele Franco to recover those projects that are also valid but do not have all the characteristics to be approved by Brussels in the framework of the Next Generation Eu.
The Minister of Economy shows up early in the morning with all the staff at Palazzo Chigi, to examine once again calculations and tables with Prime Minister Mario Draghi, in view of the Council of Ministers which will launch the document on Economy and Finance and the request for new deviation expected between Wednesday and Thursday.
The extra-trade bar that the executive is planning to obtain authorization from Parliament is around two and a half points of GDP, something more than 40 billion: the resources will largely be used to give breath to the economic activities still tried by the closures anti-Covid with a 'Sostegni bis' decree, all for businesses, which, in the intentions, should also lay the foundations for a restart.
A part of the additional deficit would instead be diverted to immediately give substance to the line of financing complementary to the NRP, so as not to leave on paper projects that are also "worthy", as the owner of the Economy defined them a few days ago, but which do not satisfy all "stringent" criteria set by European rules.
The list of proposals of the ministries at the moment would exceed the ceiling of the approximately 200 billion of the Recovery by about 30 billion.
A portion of the extra-trade deficit - yet to be established and in any case not very substantial - would therefore create this Fund for the 'excluded', to be replenished and continued to feed in the coming months.
The list of items that would end up in this parallel fund is still being defined: certainly the works that cannot be used by 2026 will not be included in the Italian Plan, but Brussels does not even look favorably on current and structural spending measures.
