Il Colao floor it's just a catalog of what Italians say they want to do for decades, without actually doing anything. It is an ineffective tool, because it does not address the problem of resources nor that of "political and social constraints, rather than institutional ones, which have so far prevented us from doing what is proposed". That's what he writes Stephen Micossi, general manager of Assonymousin an article published by the Astrid Foundation.
As regards the problem of financial coverage, Micossi underlines that the Colao plan "falls back into the old habit of proposing a subsidy for each proposal”, without considering that in Italy there are already many tax incentives and they have never given the economy the boost that was expected.
However, according to the Assonime CEO, the most serious sin of the Colao plan is another: the lack of "analysis of the failures of the Italian economy", i.e. the reasons that in recent decades have prevented the realization all proposals (not new) that the task force led by the former Vodafone number one limited itself to collecting and re-proposing.
One of the biggest problems is the gap between productivity and labor costs: Micossi argues that it could be solved "by decentralizing wage negotiations at the level of the company" or "of sectors on the territory", but so far every attempt in this direction has failed, also because the companies themselves are hindering the change, "too small companies to deal with wage negotiation at the company level”.
The small size of the companies it is another central issue for the Italian economy: businesses – writes the general manager of Assonime – “want to remain small” to preserve their family structure; even the most successful Made in Italy realities are not willing to raise capital and find partners abroad, so in the end they limit themselves to selling the entire company to foreign giants.
On the side of Public Administration, Micossi states that there can be no simplification until "that monstrous apparatus of ex-ante controls centered on the Court of Auditors and Anac, which prevents decisions, but not corruption," is dismantled.
Of all this the Colao plan does not speak at all, “nor does it remember that we massacred university and research continuing to cut public funds year after year”, concludes Micossi.
