“We never thought of leaving the euro or Europe. We are very cohesive and would like to be judged by facts. Sometimes words can escape, it happened to me too, but what matters are the facts ". He begins with these words Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, at his world premiere at the Ambrosetti Forum The European House, at Villa d'Este in Cernobbio. The intervention of the Prime Minister thus completes a day during which politics stole the spotlight from finance, usually the protagonist on the shores of Lake Como: at lunchtime he had trod the favorite stage of the Italian "strong powers" and international also the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, mainly on the topic of immigration.
Conte, on the other hand, was called to account for the imminent great challenge of the new government: the budget law. The prime minister did not provide precise indications on the numbers, indeed quoting the great economist Federico Caffè and his famous quote in which he denounces the replacement of men with numbers: "The maneuver aims above all at exercising a prerogative of the government, namely that to launch an economic policy with a five-year perspective. Every now and then the newspapers speak of early elections, we will demonstrate that this is not the case with the economic maneuver that we are preparing in recent weeks and which aims to exercise a five-year perspective policy. This is why some measures will be introduced gradually. Even before 3%, the constraints derive from public debt, poverty, low growth and low productivity and high taxation”.
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The premier then defined the line to follow as that of the "macroeconomics of the good father of a family, who if he continues to get into debt will be increasingly poor, because no one will give him credit anymore". The objective therefore remains the reduction of the debt and then that of structural measures that modify “the intangible infrastructures. For the material ones it takes longer, while for the immaterial ones the guidelines that we are following are basically three: fight against poverty, through the basic income; tax fairness and simplification through tax reform; labor productivity through investment and reforms. If necessary, the civil code will also be reformed, as our French friends have recently done, with the aim of making their country more attractive to investors”.
Conte then quickly pitted a series of other priorities, many of which are already known: the fight against corruption, with the bill just approved by the Council of Ministers, bureaucratic simplification, the digitization of public services. Finally, a small jab at the audience of entrepreneurs who listened to him: “Politics has great responsibilities, even if we can't take on all of them because we've just arrived. But the business world also has responsibilities in the country's backward situation. I can only say that now we will put you in a position to make a good impression”.
