Eighty-five million euros for 2020, 128 for 2021, 170 for 2022 to be reported as expenditure for the executive planning, for the safety of the territory at hydrogeological risk. Something (little) is moving in the protection of the landscape and the Municipalities. There budget law as soon as it was approved, it allocated those funds for the first three years and for the following years. From 2022 to 2034 the forecast rises (slightly) to 200 million a year. Money intended for the energy efficiency of schools, public buildings and municipal assets, to make roads safe. In any case, the Municipalities will have to inform the Ministry of the Interior of the expenditure values by 15 January of the year of the reference financial year.
You can't claim victory, but it is a step forward compared to the enormous needs of Regions, Municipalities and mountain communities to keep millions of citizens safe. Where every year damages amount to billions of euros, when we don't have to count dead and wounded. The Anci communicated, however, that the total contribution attributed to each local authority is established by 28 February of each year by the Ministry of the Interior and by that of the Economy. At the base one priority grid: securing the territory at risk; making roads, bridges and viaducts safe; safety and energy efficiency improvement of buildings, with precedence for school buildings, and other structures owned by the institution.
How adequate are these choices of Conte 2? Objectively little if we only consider the first emergency interventions by the Regions which then in the end pass through the general state budget, but under other headings. In addition, we must remember that 2019 really was a terrible year for Italy where extreme events cost the lives of 42 people. There were also 157 climatic events classified by Legambiente as storms, droughts, heat waves, floods. All with consequences on the territories, on urban planning, on livability.
Needless to make a list of disasters but also of the organizational and political confusion that accompanied Conte 1 or of the incomprehensible controversies on the central or peripheral responsibilities of the disasters. Count 2 could have given stronger signals, especially with the left in government which for years has proposed laws on land consumption and still governs two thirds of the territories at risk. We can only hope for a 2020 that is very different from 2019.
