The structural crisis of the Inpgi, the institution that has been paying pensions to journalists for years in deep red due to the imbalance between the reduction of employed journalists in service and the increase in retired journalists, finally arrives on the table of the Draghi Government to which the whole category looks with great confidence.
Already on Friday an amendment to the Sostegni-bis decree, approved by the Budget Commission of the Chamber, gave the Inpgi another six months, i.e. until 31 December 2021, to avoid the commissioner by adopting urgent fair and effective measures to straighten the budget of the 'institute. But, while giving the Inpgi another chance, the Government, faced with the seriousness of the crisis in journalists' pensions, is preparing to take the field in first person. This is why it was decided to set up a technical commission with representatives of the ministries of Labour, the Economy, the Presidency of the Council and the Inpgi and the Inps to "allow the necessary insights" in order to guarantee the sustainability of the journalists' pension system.
Thus a discussion table opens which, by 20 October, will have to provide decisive indications for an extraordinary solution to the crisis of journalists' pensions because - as warned by the president of the parliamentary commission for the control of social security institutions, Tommaso Nannicini - "it is not the moment of postponements but of decisions” since “the situation of the Inpgi needs that it be immediately clarified which path it intends to take to protect the pensions of journalists”.
In essence, it will be a matter of choosing between the two alternatives that have been proposed for the future of the Inpgi and the pensions of journalists, i.e. either the confluence of the Inpgi into the Inps or the expansion of the audience of Inpgi members with the confluence in the institute of journalists of communication workers or all publishing workers. These are not easy decisions to make, but the fact that the Government has decided to deal with them personally demonstrates that we have gotten to the point and that Draghi wants to solve a crucial problem for the future of the pensions of today's and tomorrow's journalists. Just as a new and very important signal should be considered the fact that not only the Inpgi but also the Inps have been called to be part of the technical commission that must pronounce itself.
