"After a year still nothing for young people: only growth in a cast". This is the accusation against the government launched by Alessio Rossi, president Young Entrepreneurs of Confindustria, during the association's conference in Rapallo.
The industrialists had asked for urgent measures to restart the country, but the Executive's response "was weak", added Rossi, emphasizing that “the growth decree perhaps it would be more prudent to call it a decree crossed fingers”.
For Flat Tax e CBI, these are measures implemented "in debt: let's talk about them when they can be done without blowing up the public accounts. In the meantime, we can immediately lower the tax wedge, because it puts more money in the workers' pockets and restarts development".
100 quota, on the other hand, "it is coming back to us like a boomerang - continues the President of the Young Entrepreneurs - because the European Commission has banned it, but the real problem is that this measure generates a paradox: in one of the oldest countries in the 'Europe cannot have an unsustainable pension system”.
In conclusion, “we have been making proposals for years, we have addressed all governments. This time there is nothing more to add. It's not that we have nothing to say, we don't know who to say to, because there are only endless electoral campaigns ahead of us and never a serious confrontation". According to Rossi, now that Italian growth is at a standstill, industrial production is falling, investments are slowing down and jobs are suffering, "comparisons are needed, not balconies".
In this scenario, if the European Union really opened up an infringement procedure against Italy, the country "could end up on the bench", while "we must have an obsession, demonstrate reliability and be credible - Rossi said again - It is a little surprising to hear our premier talk about a sort of natural self-correction that should protect the our country from the procedure. The recommendation delivered to Italy by Brussels shatters the illusion of continuing to run a deficit without looking at the consequences, restoring objectivity, either by accepting dialogue with the EU and its 'numbers', or by paying the price for the consequences” .
For this reason, according to Rossi, Italy must not engage in “a war of position with the European institutions: if it is true that the time has come to improve them, then we must stop portraying them as adversaries. Therefore, the only way to reform the European Union is to stay in it as protagonists”.
Finally, as already Mario Draghi during Thursday's press conference, Rossi railed against the idea of the minibots: "Thinking that the public debt problem can be solved with minibots is like trying it with Monopoly money".
Moreover, if the safeguard clauses are triggered in 2020, "VAT and excise duties will increase: in order not to trigger them, 23 billion are needed and they must be found without intervening on the deficit". Rossi pointed out that 23 billion is more or less the value of a budget law, therefore the Government must find double the resources: "By now our public finances are officially under European supervision and together with economic flexibility, our patience".
