"Boccia was wrong: if entrepreneurs really were similar to Di Maio, it would mean that there is no hope for the country". Thus Ernesto Auci, president of FIRSTonline, comments in his latest editorial video on the words of the number one of Confindustria, who on April 11 welcomed the speech of the deputy premier grillino to the General Council of Industrialists with a controversial sentence: "Di Maio seemed like a of ours – stated Boccia – what he said is acceptable, even if more needs to be done”.
According to Auci, “in reality, the populists and sovereignists who are in government have got everything wrong in the economy. They are statists, they are welfarists and they have enacted measures against the productivity of the economy. They blocked the drills and public works, starting with the Tav, but also many others".
So how can Di Maio be compared to entrepreneurs? “You just can't understand – continues Auci – Also because Italy has clearly entered a phase of stagnation, if not a recession. The Minister of the Treasury, Giovanni Tria, has finally pulled his nails out by launching a Def that makes it clear how things stand: there will be no growth this year and not even next year”.
As for the public debt, “to contrast its growth – continues Auci – it would be necessary to privatize a good 18 billion this year and another 6 or 7 next year, which is absolutely impossible. So we find ourselves in a truly delicate situation: at the moment there is calm on the markets, but it is not said that this will continue even when next year's budget has to be discussed”.
