Without infrastructure there will be no growth and if you have the billions from the PNRR at your disposal Regions they must become the fastest toll booth on an imaginary highway. Their operation so far has not helped the country system. Rather, it has blocked strategic investments, often ending up being the counterparty of entrepreneurs, if not even of the State.
There is an opportunity these days to understand whether the choices within regional organizations will finally take the right direction or whether local autonomies remain a boulder towards development. In Turin until Tuesday 3 October "The Italy of the Regions” event organized by the State-Regions Conference. We talk about infrastructure, energy, urban planning, logistics. The President of the Republic will also speak on Monday and Tuesday Sergio Mattarella and the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Differentiated autonomy at the center of the meeting
The introductory note of the event indicates the objective of developing and constructing useful proposals to strengthen the role, identity and different specificities of the Regions and autonomous Provinces. A forum for dialogue to develop a "positioning platform with respect to the policies of the near future". Without beating around the bush too much, the real issue that the Presidents of the Regions will have to resolve concerns the autonomy project differentiated that the center-right intends to implement before leaving government. What is the idea on the table of the State-Regions Conference?
The Northern League's bill Roberto Calderoli it was rejected by an infinite number of subjects, real protagonists of democratic life. The thought of the Head of State would be enough to no longer chase the division of Italy. “The differences linked to social, economic, organizational and health factors between the different territories of our country - between the North and the South, for the smaller islands, for the internal areas - create injustices and harm the right to equality. The Constitution still guides us, where it prescribes that the Republic must remove economic and social obstacles that undermine people's rights and their full realization", said Mattarella. And the Bank of Italy he warned Parliament when he wrote that with differentiated autonomy there is the risk “of triggering processes that are difficult to reverse and with uncertain outcomes."
Testing infrastructures for the South
The infrastructure of the country being discussed in Turin cannot be successful if local powers become subjects of conflict. In this context, the torment of the prime minister who on the one hand calls for the unity of the nation and on the other suffers from Northern League radicalism is also evident. A balancing act which in the South does not lead to any progress being made in the construction of essential infrastructures. Networks, roads, energy, ports, heritage, there is a suffocating list of things to do. The productive world is demanding them and there are investors ready to bet on the southern excellences that still exist. What impact should we expect from the Turin event? President Mattarella will only be able to reiterate respect for the Constitution, with reforms to be carried out without compromising unity. It's like the last call to thwart an imprudent plan.
The Pnrr Observatory of Ambrosetti studio he wrote that the investments envisaged by the Plan with direct impacts on inequalities amount to 39 billion euros and cited the High Speed Rail System in the South as an example, which could impact the entire Southern economy. The car is slow and doubts about what type of autonomy to organize are the order of the day. If the problem is also i performance levels to be insured in each Region, these must be guaranteed with real money that must not be wasted (in the South someone acts my fault) but placed where they are needed to begin designing a country without gaps and without rhetoric. We can expect this from Turin.
