We publish below the conclusions of the speech that Stefano Micossi, General Manager of Assonime, gave as part of the Conference organized by the Bank of Italy and the Council of State on "Administrative justice and the needs of the economic system".
Micossi focused in particular on the factors blocking the development of the Italian economy.
Here are his words:
Over the past decade, many administrative reforms have been undertaken to improve the environment for doing business. Nonetheless, the perception of a country in plaster, which operates far below its potential, has strengthened.
Where the previous legislatures, even though they started with the announcement of major changes, failed is in having quickly lost their course. We preferred to focus on easy targets (bureaucrats, slackers) and easy solutions (turnstiles), rather than on the real problems.
In our public administration there are valuable human resources who must be put in a position to work and who must be involved in the process of renewal, rather than pointing to public ridicule in order to gain easy popularity.
To face the major challenges, which are those of improving the quality of the legislation, enhancing the role of the public administration at the service of the community, modernizing the control system, coherent and continuous action is needed, even away from the spotlight. The results take time, but the new generations will be grateful.
