Optimism on the labor reform, pressure on the liberalization decree and a warning not to let our guard down on the markets. These are the messages launched today by Prime Minister Mario Monti, who was heard in the Chamber hearing in the afternoon. In the evening the expected summit at Palazzo Chigi with the three majority leaders: Angelino Alfano, Pier Luigi Bersani and Pier Ferdinando Casini.
On the reform being studied by Minister Fornero, the Professor assured that the final agreement with the social partners is now "in the pipeline". As for the provision on liberalizations, at the center of today's hearing, Monti appealed for the "sense of responsibility" of the deputies: "It is necessary to definitively approve the decree. The priority is to approve the conversion bill".
Not only. The green light must come without further changes to the text, in order to reduce the times to a minimum. However, any changes may "be postponed to future interventions", specified the premier.
"About energy - Monti explained, going into the merits of the provision - in the face of observations and controversies, which seem to me to have vanished, according to which the government would have been strong with the weak and weak with the strong, this is an image that does not correspond to reality. I don't think that the energy provision had particularly weak subjects as a counterpart, we tried not to look at the weakness of the subjects”.
As for the railway network, however, “we want competition that is not a jungle. A certain step must be followed to avoid that whoever enters the system can skim off the benefits of highly profitable routes, leaving all the burdens deriving from serving the so-called dead branches on the shoulders of the ex-monopolist operator. First we need a system of Authorities and criteria”.
Finally, a warning came from the Prime Minister: in recent weeks “there has been a relaxation of the Italian and European financial picture, which has not, however, been perfectly normalised. We are in a position of careful supervision with respect to the financial markets”. It is necessary avoid "premature and dangerous impulses to relax", because in this phase of the crisis "every setback can lead to serious falls in the system".
