"The growth ahead of us is a rebound, linked to the sharp fall in gross domestic product recorded last year. In 2020, the Italian economy contracted by 8.9%, one of the deepest recessions in Europe. It was therefore inevitable that the reopening was accompanied by a strong acceleration of activity. The
challenge for the government - and for the entire production system and the social partners - is to ensure that this recovery is lasting and sustainable. " The premier said this at the Confindustria assembly, hoping for an "economic, productive and social pact for the country". "There are many things that we continuously discuss that can be the subject of this pact - he noted -. I define it as a shared economic perspective.We all have to sit down together "
Ovation for Mario Draghi at the Confindustria assembly
The prime minister also made it clear that the government does not intend to raise taxes.
"I want to reaffirm, I think it is important, -that the government for its part has no intention of raising taxes. Right now the money is given and not taken."
"The government forecasts that we will present in the next few days estimate growth of around 6% this year, compared to 4.5% assumed in the spring," said Draghi.
"To ensure the sustainability of the recovery we must first of all prevent other significant waves of contagion - added the premier - The government is acting with the utmost determination to avoid new closures. I therefore want to thank the Italians once again for their conviction. with which they joined the vaccination campaign, and the companies for the commitment shown in cooperating with its organization ".
"We must avoid the economic risks that hide behind this positive moment, preserve good industrial relations, so that they ensure equity and social peace and accelerate with our program of reforms and investments, to improve the long-term growth rate of the Italian economy" , Draghi pointed out
"To date, over 41 million Italians have completed the vaccination cycle, almost 77% of the population over 12 years old - he said -. And we are close to reaching and then exceeding the goal we set ourselves, that is immunize 80% of the vaccinable population by the end of September ".
The "green pass" - for the Prime Minister, is an instrument of freedom and security, to defend citizens and workers and keep schools and businesses open.
I want to thank Confindustria which immediately worked together with the government and the trade unions to find an agreement on extending the "green pass" to workplaces "
"If we can keep the contagion curve under control, we can further loosen the restrictions that are still in place - for example in workplaces, cinemas, theaters, stadiums and other sports and culture spaces"
"In October - announced Draghi -, we intend to approve a measure that will boost competition. I ask you companies to support it with conviction. The strengthening of the economy involves the opening of markets and not the defense of income".
"Nothing is easier than when the overall picture changes, he stressed - industrial relations are under particular pressure and instead we must be able to keep them. Bonomi's words suggest that we can start thinking about an economic, productive pact. , the social aspect of the country. There are many things we discuss continuously that can be the subject of this pact. I define it as a shared economic perspective. We all have to sit down together ".
"Good industrial relations are the pillar of the production unit - he continued -. This phrase of mine comes from an apparent similarity between today and the postwar period as Bonomi recalled before, there was a catastrophe, as then, there is a strong recovery, as then, with rates that we only saw in those years ", said Draghi.
"It occurred to me spontaneously why growth rates stopped after the 1960s and, as a friend told me, the toy broke. The mutations in the international scenario, Bretton Woods, the price of oil, two wars, the great inflation, have changed the international situation, but even in this very difficult situation some countries have faced the 70s successfully and a feature that separates other countries from Italy is the system of industrial relations that have been there good, while in Italy at the end of the 1960s we witnessed the total destruction of industrial relations. Therefore I insist on this, because nothing is easier than when the situation changes, relations are under particular pressure and instead we must be able to keep them ".
Confindustria hopes that Prime Minister Mario Draghi "will continue his current experience for a long time"
and warns: continue "without the parties attacking the cohesion of the Government, thinking of the next administrative decisions with vetoes and maneuvers in view of the choice to be made for the Quirinale". President Carlo Bonomi dedicates ample space in his report to the annual assembly of industrialists to the figure of Draghi, one of the "men of necessity", different from the "men of providence" as one who gave birth to "a twenty-year regime of oppression" and from the "men of the possible", those of the "kick to the can", of the "eternal postponement". The reforms need to be done now. No more postponements, no more games, no more vetoes. Really enough ", warns the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, expressing the" concern "for the time schedule for the rforms linked to the Pnrr which "risks slipping". For the industrialists, "the risky game of the flags of ephemeral consensus is a profoundly wrong path". Confindustria "will oppose all those who want to hinder the process of reforms"; "To those who flirt with the no vax instead of thinking about the safety of citizens and workers, as to those who think that this government is timed".as to those who think that this government is timed ".as to those who think that this government is timed ".
The main points of the speech by the industrial leader, Carlo Bonomi
Bonomi quotes Draghi, a long standing ovation
A first long standing ovation, lasting over a minute, for Prime Minister Mario Draghi as soon as the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi mentions him during his speech at the Entrepreneurs' Assembly.
And then again other warm applause during the speech that dedicates a long endorsement to the premier.
The president of the council is seated in the front row, smiles and greets with his head the more than a thousand entrepreneurs crowded in the Palazzetto dello Sport in the Eur district in Rome.
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'It's time to change and make right choices for Italy'
"It is time to decide to choose to change. To make the right choices to make Italy grow in the world. The hardest thing in life is to understand which bridge you have to cross and which bridge you have to burn. Because changing is certainly difficult, but not changing for Italy is fatal ".
This is the message contained in the conclusion of the speech by the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi who quotes a sentence by Bebe Vio defined as the heroine of the passion of effort and will: "Let them tell you that it is impossible, and show everyone that you can do it".
'Reforms now, no to those who flirt with no vax'
"The reforms must be done now. No more postponements, no more games, no more vetoes. Really enough", warns the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, expressing the "concern" about the time schedule for the rforms linked to the PNRR which "risks slipping".
For the industrialists, "the risky game of the flags of ephemeral consensus is a profoundly wrong path".
Confindustria "will oppose all those who want to hinder the process of reforms";
"To those who flirt with the no vax instead of thinking about the safety of citizens and workers, as to those who think that this government is timed".
'Trade unions, we make a real Pact for Italy'
"Let us at least make a true Pact for Italy": Bonomi, from the stage of the assembly addresses "directly to the leaders" of Cgil, Cisl and Uil, Landini, Sbarra and Bombardieri.
"Luigi, Maurizio, Pierpaolo, we did not start fighting, we have a great common task. Faced with the delays and the increasingly serious social fractures of our Italy, work and business have a great challenge: to build agreements together and indicate paths and tools that politics hardly sees ", says Bonomi, indicating three" concrete examples "on which to start: safety at work, active policies and smart working.
'State waives VAT-excise income on energy'
"We are anxious to understand how the Government will try to stem these increases so that they do not translate into a sting for Italian families", says the president of Confindustria, underlining the issue of increases in commodities from mining to metals and up to the dizzying increase. of energy prices ". And he says: "It is obvious that for us the best temporary solution would be a state renunciation of its massive revenues through VAT and excise duties which affect energy and fuels".
'We are worried about the tax reform'
"First of all we have a concern. We continue to read that the Government would have only 3 billion available for tax reform. We have never liked the de fi cit and unlimited public debt. you need to have clear ideas. We have given over 3 billion in the last 4 years to bankrupt Alitalia and to the small company that is now born ".
It is the passage of Bonomi's intervention who says he is in favor of adding to an intervention on the 38% personal income tax rate, a cut in the tax wedge, the cancellation of IRAP, interventions to support businesses.
'Quota 100 a theft against fragile individuals'
"Quota 100 was a theft against the fragile subjects of our unbalanced welfare, and it can and should really be enough", says Bonomi, speaking of the possibility of retiring with at least 62 years of age and 38 years of contributions, whose three-year trial expires at the end of the year and the next interventions on the subject of pensions. "The intervention on social security - he continues - cannot be resolved in a disguised Quota100, perhaps applied to 63-year-olds instead of 62-year-olds. If you want a comparison on concessions for only strenuous jobs, let's talk about it. But really weary, not yet another safeguard after the raf fi c adopted in recent years, which had nothing more to do either with Fornero's exodus, nor with really strenuous works ". According to the president of Confindustria, "what it seems to us is that the burdens of the contribution system should finally be redirected to the support and inclusiveness of the recurring victims of the Italian crises: that is, young people, women and temporary workers, instead of being burned on the altar of the electoral end of early retirement who he has a job ".
