Anti-corruption, competitiveness and public administration: these are the three major reforms that Matteo Renzi brings today to the approval of the Council of Ministers after the positive tour in Asia and after the furious internal controversies within the Democratic Party on the transformation of the Senate.
Renzi wants to run and he wants to give the first signal on the fight against corruption after the scandals of the expo and Mose by giving full powers to commissioner Raffaele Cantone. The anti-corruption rules are a bit the antechamber of the justice reform that the Government plans to implement in a couple of weeks.
Another essential chapter in the race for reforms by today's Council of Ministers will be the provision for the competitiveness of businesses, which includes various measures but which at its center is the reduction of electricity bills by 10% as Renzi promised from day one to remove the ballast that prevents companies from competing on equal terms with the competition.
Then there will be the complex reform of the public administration that promises sparks with the unions. But Renzi is determined to go the same way as he does, foreseeing more mobility, more generational turnover, more part-time work and less separation from trade unions.
These are the guidelines of today's Council of Ministers but, as we know, Renzi has accustomed us to surprises that may not be missing this time too. Including the announcement of an imminent meeting with Silvio Berlusconi to definitively unblock the reform of the Senate and overcome internal dissidence within the Democratic Party.
