The Lombardy Region launches "Quota Lombardia", an initiative with a budget of 25 million euros to support SMEs in listing on Euronext Growth Milan. Companies can request non-repayable grants of up to 600.000 euros to cover expenses…
"Differentiated autonomy will give Italy a Harlequin dress, complicating the lives of citizens and businesses" claims Giampaolo Galli, director of the Observatory on Public Accounts, in a very critical note on the law just approved by Parliament
According to the PBO, the criteria envisaged by the new system for allocating national healthcare needs generated a redistributive impact between the Regions of 2023 million euros in 219, but the reward quota reduces the transparency of the mechanism
The protest against the Northern League project of differentiated autonomy brought together hundreds of people. The mayors ask the government to reallocate 10 billion euros.
The one-stop shop has been operational since March 1st and new applications for industrial initiatives have arrived. The heavy legacy of previous areas
Tug of war between Meloni and Salvini over the third mandate for governors and mayors with political consequences that go far beyond future regional elections and can reopen many games
Objective of the event: to strengthen the dialogue on the offer of CDP tools and products dedicated to the sustainable development of the territory. Basket bonds for SMEs
After the Senate's green light to the bill on differentiated autonomy, in a hearing before the Regional Affairs Commission, the PBO talks about the definition of the LEDs
The projects and availability of local authorities for green hydrogen hubs are growing. Four initiatives announced in the last week in favor of SMEs.
The labor market is holding up with employment rising especially in the Center and North, but in the South there remains an unused workforce. The report on the economy in the Italian regions by Bank of Italy
Utilitalia brings together associated companies to revolutionize water management. The average investment per capita is increasingly lower than in Europe.
In the Nadef, the health expenditure to GDP ratio is expected to fall to 6,6% in 2024 and 6,1% in 2023. President Mattarella: "Healthcare heritage to be defended", outcry among governors
The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella will speak at the meeting of the Regional Presidents underway in Turin. A voice against the differentiated autonomy which risks splitting Italy
The four constitutional and administrative experts have decided to leave the Committee in dissent on the substance of the Calderoli reform: without changes it is unconstitutional and will increase inequalities. Clash on the determination of the essential levels of performance (LED)
Nine Italian regions are placed in the third band, eight in the fourth and four in the last band, a sort of Dantesque group. This is the verdict of the RAI (Regional Attractivness Index) elaborated by the Nord Est Foundation on the basis of 26 parameters grouped into…
In a memorandum filed in Parliament, the Bank of Italy points the finger at three issues: we need to examine costs/benefits by subject, periodic evaluation of the Regions' participation and mandatory verification procedures. Otherwise, he warns, the outcome would be uncertain
The crucial point is that of determining the Lep, the essential levels of services, to be ensured throughout the national territory. Speech by the Councilor of the Parliamentary Budget Office Giampaolo Arachi
The REF Ricerche Laboratory analyzes the situation of the waste market in Italy. A sum of interventions by Arera, Regions, Tar, the Competition Authority does not allow us to glimpse a real organic waste market. The state intervenes
Healthcare among the sectors most affected by the Northern League bill. After the family doctors, five other Associations denounce the risks for the national health service.
The Calderoli bill seems to take the Regions with Special Statutes as a model for differentiated autonomy, but according to the Italian Public Accounts Observatory (Cpi) it could be a big mistake
Two new provisions of the Commission clarify the path towards 2030. Italy in 5th place among the 27 countries for patents.
Cassa Depositi e Prestiti has announced an analysis of the state of the Italian waste cycle. The Center and South remains critical due to the lack of plants. Disposal takes place outside the Region and weighs on citizens
The bill that represents a formal scaffolding will be submitted to the opinion of the joint State-Regions-City Conference - The oppositions arise, Calenda: "Electoral mockery"
The construction of the single nuclear waste repository is moving further and further away. The objective declared by MASE is to achieve it by 2030. Meanwhile, waste of any origin in temporary deposits is increasing.
INTERVIEW with the economist GIANFRANCO VIESTI of the University of Bari who explains all the dangers of the Calderoli draft: "No to political and ideological forcing, we must first discuss the merits of the issues"
Before thinking about attributing new powers to the Regions, we should ask ourselves what effects their current management has had on citizens - But the premier responds to Salvini's regionalist push in an equally wrong way with a confused presidentialism that…
The CON IL SUD Foundation has selected the projects to increase sustainable circulation inside and outside the cities. Among the objectives is also the employment of people in difficulty
With 500 million euros already spent, the government has intervened on polluting sites without recognized perpetrators. Responsible for the works Regions and Provinces
The Whirlpool dispute will also end up in the hands of the next government - The first deadline is October 21 when the results of the third quarter will be announced, which do not seem to bode well
An Italian-Swiss project will install optical fibers for real-time flood control
According to the North-East Foundation, in twenty years the Italian GDP per capita has fallen from 22% above the European average to 6% below - Slow growth is the problem holding the country back: here is the ranking of the region's GDP per capita For…
The State-Regions Conference measures the progress of the initiatives included in the PNRR. Always in the foreground energy and infrastructure
Safe driving courses as a remedy for thousands of road accidents. Motorists, especially the younger ones, respond positively. Towards a "national platform" to promote its diffusion.
The green light for vaccination with the fourth dose for the over 60s and fragile subjects of all ages should arrive on Monday 11 July, as suggested by the European Medicines Agency Ema. The regions are ready to reopen the…
Only a few days left until the 2022 summer sales start, weeks of discounts on a wide range of products. Here's everything you need to know to get ready for shopping
According to the Upb's calculations, the measure envisaged by the fiscal delegation risks causing, at best, a revenue shortfall of 109 million euros
Conceived as a sports tournament, it will see the regions committed to telling their food and wine heritage through a dish and a wine
The National Charter of Suitable Areas has arrived at MITE: the green light is almost there - The place for the National Radioactive Waste Deposit must be chosen by 2025
Environmental crowdfunding convinces many Italians who direct their savings to crowdfunding platforms - Followed by Valle D'Aosta, Veneto, Lombardy, Liguria, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna
According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the ministerial notice is open to criticism from two points of view: the methods of allocating funds among the Regions and the criteria established for evaluating projects and expanding the number of places
Sogin closed 2021 with the national consultation on the waste storage. The 2020-2025 Business Plan has been confirmed by the management.
At the end of 2020 there were 393 and the figure is calculated by default - Regions are often unable to manage the funds, but a large part of the incoming European aid will be destined for these institutions
The Report of the Institute for Environmental Protection exposes a country poor in structures to mitigate hydrogeological risk - Meanwhile, a new decree updates the criteria for interventions
The renaturation project of the Great River basin concerns multiple economic activities and the safety of thousands of people
The Regions ask the government to de-bureaucratize the rules on infrastructure spending in the PNRR - The goal is to reconcile environmental protection and a sustainable development model
Photovoltaic is growing but authorizations remain the biggest problem. The complaint of the GSE in the Senate.
Where and how do you vote? What documents do I need to bring? Do you need the green pass? What risks those who photograph the card with the phone? Here are the answers to these and other questions
In days the decree with the funds to build new plants. The greatest expenditure goes to the Center and South. Minister Cingolani: "The projects will start in the next few weeks"
At the meeting of the Committee for the ecological transition the steps towards 2030 and 2050. Green light to the new MITE.
The Spighe Verdi 2021 have been assigned. Piedmont is in the lead, followed by Marche and Tuscany. The goal: to reward rural municipalities engaged in a virtuous path that benefits the environment and the quality of life of the entire community and aims to enhance areas today…
The data provided to the Regions by the commissioner structure indicate a 35-40% drop in doses compared to June. However, General Figliuolo reassures: the reduction will be only 5% - The governors are asking for clarity
In the second year of the pandemic, traffic on the motorway and road in Italy is increasing, not only due to the resumption of activities but also due to greater free time. This is what emerged from the new focus on Italian mobility trends promoted…
Molise, Sardinia and Friuli make their debut in the white area, but by mid-June it will be the turn of half of Italy, including Lazio and Lombardy
After weekly monitoring, the national Rt index still drops and the incidence falls below 100 cases per 100.000 inhabitants. Vaccines: from 2 June Lombardy opens vaccinations for 16-29 year olds
After the weekly monitoring there are 5 orange Regions, all in the South, one in red and the other 14 all in yellow
On Monday 26 April, reopening will be allowed only in the 13 yellow regions (plus Trento and Bolzano): excluding the islands, Calabria, Basilicata, Puglia and Valle d'Aosta. Shopping malls still closed on weekends
According to the Monitor published by the Intesa Sanpaolo Studies and Research Department, while public debt has continued to rise, that of local administrations has dropped by 800 million
Campania is back in orange together with 16 other Regions - Puglia, Valle d'Aosta and Sardinia still in red - Rt index and incidence drop.
Government and Regions are studying a timetable for gradual reopening: the most virtuous Regions on vaccines will be able to return to yellow as early as April 26, while for restaurants to reopen even in the evening, the hypothesis is mid-May
Rome turns orange as early as Tuesday 30 March, while for Friuli, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont, Marche, Lombardy, Campania, Puglia (reinforced red), Veneto, Trentino, Calabria, Tuscany and Val d'Aosta the lockdown is certain until over Easter.
Some Regions have developed effective booking systems, others have relied on the Poste Italiane platform, but most continue to experience difficulties. The government wants to impose a change but the governors are holding back
10 Regions remain in the red zone, but Lazio has hope of returning to orange at the end of the month. Molise remains orange, Tuscany and Calabria risk lockdown next Friday.
The strictest restrictions in 15 regions and in Trentino take effect from Monday 10 March. Sardinia remains blank, no one in yellow until Easter.
The weekly monitoring has added only Campania to the red regions (which are now 5 counting South Tyrol but to which entire provinces in the Centre-North must be added). Only 6 Regions resist in yellow, Sardinia is still white.
Lazio, Veneto, Calabria and Puglia risk orange - Towards the red Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy, where Fontana anticipates the Government: from tomorrow "dark orange" - Draghi stops AstraZeneca forbidding it from selling vaccines to Australia
The contagion continues to rise, even if the Rt index remains just below 1. Basilicata and Molise reach South Tyrol in lockdown. Now there are 9 orange Regions, with the return of Piedmont, Lombardy and Marche and with several "orange" areas…
As the last act of its mandate, the outgoing government extended the ban on travel between regions by ten days - Tuscany, Trento, Abruzzo and Liguria become orange zones, Sicily returns to the yellow band
Local administrations would like to use the document to grant more freedom to vaccinated people, but the ministry is holding back: too dangerous, at least for now
The deadline of the last Dpcm issued by the Conte government, with the block on travel, occurs in full handover with the new Draghi government. The rebus of skiing and white weeks
From Sunday 31 January, the restriction measures will ease in almost the whole country: only Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily, Umbria and the autonomous province of Bolzano remain orange.
The verdict on Friday: we are moving towards an easing of the measures in Veneto, Emilia and Calabria. Rome and Milan should remain orange, South Tyrol (and perhaps Sicily) still in red.
The Government has published new FAQs on the rules and bans in force from 14 January to 15 February (at least) - Here's everything you need to know
The national Rt index rises to 1,09. Control room: "High general level of risk of an uncontrolled and unmanageable epidemic" - All the changes and rules from January 17
The cdm has approved the new decree that establishes new travel restrictions - Here are the rules to be respected from 16 January
In a meeting between the Government and the Regions, the hypotheses on the new rules that should come into force on January 16 are examined - The white area arrives, while the yellow one "strengthens" - A further anti-nightlife squeeze is expected - Ski facilities closed…
From January 7, Italy returns to the yellow zone, but several Regions risk returning to orange or red soon - We are heading towards further tightening on weekends
More than 40 years after the establishment of the National Health Service, it is time to take stock of the State-region organizational model and to correct its serious defects by acknowledging the fact that regional autonomy has not guaranteed uniform health protection, as…
No exceptions for the holidays: restaurants closed throughout Italy on December 25 and 26, and after 18 pm on other days. The curfew and the ban on moving between regions have been confirmed. Lombardy, Piedmont and Calabria are no longer zones…
INTERVIEW WITH BRUNO TABACCI, Member of Parliament elected in Milan, leader of the Democratic Center and former Governor of the Lombardy Region - "It is time for Lombard politics to profoundly rethink its healthcare model, finding a new balance between public and private and…
Conte announces imminent decisions as administrators from Emilia to Lombardy plan to ease the bans as early as this weekend. Hospital doctors and nurses warn: "We are still under pressure, we cannot afford it"
Appeal by doctors to the Government to decree the lockdown throughout Italy: hospitals are at the limit of endurance - Today the decision is made on whether or not to tighten the partial lockdown for six Regions
According to the contagion index table, the three regions are the first suspects to face the closure of bars, restaurants, shops and non-essential activities and to have to limit travel - Among the red areas also the…
Alarm from the Istituto Superiore della Sanità and appeal from 100 scientists and professors to immediately launch "drastic measures to curb infections" - The analysis of the Accademia dei Lincei: "3 infections per day within 100 weeks" - Conte reiterates his No to the…
The Minister of Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia affirmed that "the restrictions on movement between the Regions cannot be excluded" - Ricciardi: "We risk 16 cases a day in November" - There is also a ban on parking in front of bars…
President Bonaccini's proposal to reserve a role for the Regions in the direct management of Recovery funds is reasonable but among the various possible investments, those in knowledge deserve absolute priority with an eye to the Rhine model and in particular…
Faced with the resumption of infections and the overcrowding of the dance halls, the Government - in agreement with the Regions - has decided to close the discos and dance clubs until 7 September - Obligation to wear a mask also…
With infections on the rise, especially among young people, the government is evaluating whether to impose the closure of discos throughout Italy - 100 million compensation ready for entrepreneurs - Tuscany and Puglia have already moved with new…
Regions and Municipalities will have to be involved in the national energy plan in order to push electric mobility and bring forward the achievement of the objectives set at European level to 2030 - Lazio and Emilia Romagna are moving, but incentives are needed…
After the bridge of 2 June, it is possible to return to traffic from one region to another and the blockade of borders in the countries of the Schengen area is lifted, but Italians will not be able to go to Greece, Switzerland and Austria
Self-certification will no longer be needed and we will be able to move throughout the regional territory - In bars and restaurants, one meter distance between people will be enough - From June 3, travel also outside the region and reopening of borders in the EU -…
The circular has been published on the operating procedures for requesting the renegotiation of mortgages - The plan will involve 7.200 local authorities for a total of 135 mortgages - The operation will free up resources for 1,4 billion
What does the trend of new infections show? Two unsolicited pieces of advice to policy makers. And two almost rhetorical questions to entrepreneurs. Beware of the Merkel model.
A veritable shower of regional ordinances amends the rules established by the Government - From Lombardy to Sicily, here's who can reopen and with what rules - And what lies ahead for fashion, cars and metallurgy
The Government allocates resources for the first interventions and recognizes the state of emergency. Awaited decisions for the recovery of the affected companies. There is still no organic measure against environmental disasters
Distributed to the Regions 315 million euros for urgent and undeferrable works - The new government promises the green new deal but for now the strategy is not in sight.
Interview with the economist Gianfranco Viesti on the regional autonomy desired by the League. "It's not just a North-South rift. With the Salvini proposal there is a risk of a sharp increase in spending and creating inequality. Even for the so-called rich regions" - The nodes…
Differentiated regional autonomy risks disintegrating the country and shelving the southern question forever - However, this does not mean choosing the status quo but, on the contrary, there is a need to relaunch democratic regionalism on new…
For the M5S, the reform is not a priority, while Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna are pushing for approval. Fewer resources will go to the South, pending standard needs. At risk interventions on the environment, school, infrastructure.
The Council of Ministers has not resolved the very delicate question relating to the differentiated autonomy requested by Emilia Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto - The issue pits North and South and is yet another battleground Lega-M5S - Here, in short, what is…
The Five Star bill does not advance in the Chamber - The Regions are against the new organization - The Arera warns for the expiry of the concessions
