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Public works, -27% in the first 4 months of the year

The drop adds up to the -24,5% recorded in the whole of 2012 – Sergio Santoro, president of the Supervisory Authority for public contracts: “The drop in public investments must be countered. If it becomes structural on such low levels, it jeopardizes not only the foundations of the country's economic development, but also the regular provision of services".

Public works, -27% in the first 4 months of the year

The collapse of the public Works in Italy it gets worse. Sergio Santoro, president of the supervisory authority for public contracts, made it known that in the first four months of the year the market suffered a 27% year-over-year decline, which adds to the -24,5% recorded in the whole of 2012. 

“The fall in public investment must be countered – said Santoro -. If it becomes structural on such low levels, it jeopardizes not only the foundations of the country's economic development, but also the appropriate and regular provision of services. In this sense, the provisions of decree law 69 go in the right direction, but must be consolidated with the search for additional resources to be obtained by any means".

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