Pnrr: Cool, important driving force, also for our welfare

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 24 - "Institutions are called upon to make the Italian welfare system more equitable, sustainable and efficient, ensuring in particular the territorial and generational rebalancing of social benefits. In this context, the NRP is an important driver because it allocates significant resources for the modernization and strengthening of some pillars of our welfare state.

   Resources that must be used effectively, to strengthen the social cohesion without which our own democracy would be at risk ".

This was stated by the president of the Chamber Roberto Fico in a video message to the presentation of the Report on the welfare state.

    "The welfare state - argues Fico - is a democratic and economic pillar. It constitutes the most direct implementation of the principles of solidarity, protection of human dignity and inclusion. And it is one of the most recognizable traits of the very identity of Europe. In ours as in other countries we are Certainly there has been a serious delay in social policies in tackling inequalities, unemployment and the loss of purchasing power of wages. intergenerational solidarity. The youngest continue to benefit from protections not comparable to those of older citizens ", he concludes.

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