The Svimez hearing on the fiscal federalism project clarifies the infrastructural gap between North and South. The risk of a serious separation especially in the provision of essential services
Bioeconomy, the South wins the challenge with the Centre-North. In the South, 23,6% of businesses are organic compared to 19,7% in the rest of Italy. Investigation by the Tagliacarne and Svimez Study Center: a choice that can be a powerful development key for…
With a critical article in the Manifesto, the Bari economist Gianfranco Viesti encourages the Democratic Party to take up the challenge of differentiated autonomy to fight a battle for the reconstruction of Southern Italy which has the fight against inequalities at its centre. But without a policy…
The University of Pisa gives companies and state structures the opportunity to participate in cascade projects towards strategic objectives. For them over three million euros
Social and solidarity initiatives find an outlet in 11 companies with young people and women victims of violence. The Ministry could help.
Svimez Report 2023 - In 2023 the South grew by 0,4%, compared to +0,8% in the Centre-North - Employment rises, but also precariousness and poverty - Risk of "unsustainable fragmentation" from differentiated autonomy
CEO Roberto Cingolani presented the NEMESI project in the historic factory. Innovation is not the enemy of employment and the South is growing
400 million euros for businesses in the South with a quarter for small and medium-sized businesses. GDP divided between North and South, the exodus of young people does not stop.
The single SEZ for the entire South from 2024 will spark a new debate on the industrialization of the South. Opportunities for Italian and foreign entrepreneurs and some political risks for the Government
The lowering of the age for impunity and the tightening on mobile phones are outside the decree - The CDM stops the blockade of the Euro 5 in Piedmont, green light to the decree for the South
Where does the land of monsters of the Caivano Green Park come from: here are the origins of the bankruptcy of the state and of a degradation that is difficult to overcome
In the province of Salerno, the memory of the journalist Nadia Toffa, author of inconvenient investigations and reports
From today a real turnaround from a meteorological point of view is confirmed, with zero red dot cities: here are the weather forecasts
The new company wanted by the government, headed by the MEF, is contested by the opposition. The rearrangement of the system is in contradiction with differentiated autonomy.
Biotechnology has almost 14 employees and growing turnover. These are the data from the Enea-Assobiotec report on a sector with enormous potential
The previews of the Svimez 2023 report were presented. The South is growing like the European average but the ECB rates could have a "depressive effect". In 20 years, 460 brains were lost. Fitto: "Memorandum of Understanding with Svimez"
At the MAXXI Museum the exhibition of photography by Domenico Notangelo (journalist and photographer) curated by Francesco Cascino. Evocative images of the rock civilization of places and people of our South
In Scampia, in the Neapolitan neighborhood made famous by Roberto Saviano's book and fiction, an energy community is being planned. Toscani has put his signature on a work dedicated to young people.
An initiative promoted by an association active in the Spanish quarters. If the Pnrr starts well, there are solutions to see many contradictions resolved
The Turin-based group closes the first quarter of 2023 with excellent results. Investments in digitization and sustainability
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"
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
The jury awarded the first prize to Fiorenzo Ascolese for the craft category and to Allessando Marigliano for the innovative category. Campania is plundering prizes. Lombardy obtains two medals in the innovative fields.
The Italian waste system continues to mark disparities between North and South. There is a lack of plants and the full implementation of reforms also requested by Europe. The Meloni government wants infrastructure but must speed up decisions.
The multi-utility chooses photovoltaics to increase its business up to 2030. Three key points of the industrial plan: ecological transition, quality of service and territoriality.
The Bank has made the choice to support the SMEs of three Southern Regions with an initial ceiling. The relationship with the sea economy is also strategic.
The delay in the decrees on renewable energy communities - CER - worries companies in the sector. The requests to the government to approve them in September.
According to Bank of Italy, in 2019 the GDP of the South was still 10% lower than that of 2007, while in the Center and North the difference was 2% – Visco points the finger at productivity and demography
For Via Nazionale, the problem is also linked to human capital: "In the South, older and less educated civil servants" - "Recruitment? The competitions of the stabilizations are better”
The Mezzogiorno bulletin of the SRM study centre, linked to Intesa Sanpaolo, highlights the positive prospects for Southern Italy
The PNRR tenders for the circular economy have been postponed to 23 March for greater participation especially from the South. Over 2 million euros is the sum available for an epochal change in our economy.
Minister Franceschini announces the one billion euro plan for the regeneration of abandoned villages - The money will arrive by May - Works to be completed by 2026
Pasqualino Monti, expert manager of logistics, talks with the historian of economics Giulio Sapelli and with the maritime journalist Bruno Dardani. The result is an agile and interesting book that addresses crucial issues for the country's infrastructure and tries to unravel…
The Fondazione con il Sud launches online sales of products without pesticides and on land confiscated from the mafia.
The reclamation of the former Italsider area is back in Parliament. It takes more than 1 billion euros says Minister Carfagna to continue with the work. The new Mayor of Naples is Commissioner for reclamation.
INTERVIEW WITH BIAGIO DE GIOVANNI, philosopher and former MEP of the Democratic Party - "The southern question has been canceled as a political question because there is no longer a culture that reflects on Italian dualism and it is time to say it clearly. Not…
According to a report by the Bank of Italy, the North is driving the country's recovery, but in the acute phase of the pandemic it had also suffered the most serious losses - The implementation of the Pnrr is essential to bridge the gap with the South
INTERVIEW WITH LUCA BIANCHI, Director of SVIMEZ - "For many years the engine of the South was off, but now thanks to a new vision we can start again. The real challenge is on the ability to spend resources wisely. To…
The analysis by the Association of Environmental Companies puts the lack of facilities at the centre. Without investments, the European objectives of the circular economy will recede.
The structure was born from the experience of two consolidated industrial realities. Bringing together the supply chain but also aiming for the South
The initiative is aimed at encouraging medium-long term investments: the first issues have been subscribed for over 27 million euros by eight companies in the South active in the agrifood sector
Territorial pact funds to support economic recovery. An eco-sustainable game that looks above all to the South. The interventions must be completed within 60 or 48 months.
A new vision of the South in the infrastructure decree. Four axes to restart and reduce historical inequalities.
This is supported by a study by Confcommercio, explaining that the demographic decline due to migration has led the South to have an employment growth four times lower than that of the Italian average
After the daring election as President of the Five Stars, Giuseppe Conte's departure in his new role was not the easiest: first the slide on Milan, then the rash words about the Taliban from which both the minister...
Telecommunications, ports and airports, roads and railways, electricity, water networks, hospitals: the report cards of the Bank of Italy on the country's infrastructures highlight the usual gap between North and South but not for the Internet
According to an analysis by Intesa Sanpaolo, in 2021 the number of southern companies grew more than the national average and one in 10 is led by young people (8% nationally)
The bond is worth 500 million euros and has received demand for more than two and a half billion – 0,75% gross annual coupon expected
From 18 to 20 June, the Lucanian locality hosts a discussion workshop on the southern question. Paolo Gentiloni, Daniele Franco, Giuliano Amato and Mara Carfagna participate
INTERVIEW WITH GIANFRANCO VIESTI, Full Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Bari, southerner and author of the book "Centres and Peripheries" - The gap between Northern and Southern Italy has distant origins and in this century the reality has worsened - Pesano…
From Millennials to Generation Z, here's how the employment condition and level of education of young people in the South guide the perception of the future
The prime minister sets the benchmarks for the "South - Projects to restart" initiative, organized by Minister Carfagna. Five proposals from the Research and Entrepreneurship Foundation
In view of the rewriting of the Italian plan for the use of the Recovery Plan's resources, a group of economists has launched an appeal to accentuate its Southern imprint - Trigilia, Viesti, Laterza and Donzelli among the signatories
According to Eurostat, Campania is the engine of the southern economy but the GDP of all of southern Italy is a quarter of that of the north - Calabria and Sicily are the regions with the lowest per capita income
Bari, Puglia and the Mezzogiorno have remained orphans of a heretical, acute and tormented southerner who with his most famous work "Meridian Thought" revolutionized the way of thinking about the Mezzogiorno - He was part of the famous "école barisienne" of…
An imaginary city attacked by malfeasance and urban devastation in the new book by the writer Aniello Milo. A journey that ultimately brings us back to reality. But he doesn't ape Gomorrah.
Italy faced the tremendous pandemic crisis in conditions of great economic fragility, even in the North. The Next Generation Eu is a unique opportunity to rethink cohesion policies but the premier ignores the work of centers of excellence and…
An article published by Ref Ricerche takes stock of the disastrous waste management in the South, with some proposals to reverse the trend. In the interest of business competitiveness.
"A national question - Southern Italy from problem to opportunity" is the title of a new book by former minister Claudio De Vincenti and Giuseppe Coco who propose a radical change in policies for the South by defeating parasitism and welfarism and aiming…
Intesa Sanpaolo is the financial partner of the EIB for FondoSì, the zero-interest loan from the MIUR for graduates from the South
The INPS circular of 22 October clarifies the scope of operation of the 30% social security contribution relief for companies in the South
The FS Italiane Group is now the leading investor in the country - Its Industrial Plan is proceeding in full compliance with the times with over 1.800 active construction sites for a relaunch of the Italian system, never as fundamental as in the Covid era…
The Salerno-based company, which has large companies as clients starting with FS, received a loan of 500 thousand euros in March, obtained thanks to the investments of Banca Generali's savers.
From 31 October to 30 December a 2029% tax relief is in force for employees in the South - The government would like to extend the measure until XNUMX, but must wait for the go-ahead from Brussels
The sum allocated by CDP for the Seed program for the South is 5,7 million, which however has already generated an attractive effect of other private capital for 4,3 million euros, bringing the total placement to 10 million…
The extraordinary commissioners presented the rescue plan of Banca Popolare di Bari providing for the distribution of free shares to encourage participation in the meeting at the end of June which must approve the transformation of the bank into a joint stock company and its…
Green light from the Council of Ministers to travel between regions without any ban and without any health passport - The borders with EU countries have also reopened, even if Austria and Greece prevent the transit of Italians
Developers and Data Scientists, mobile app creators, cyber security experts profiles: completed the course, direct access to companies and job opportunities
According to a report by Unioncamere in the last 5 years, companies that sell on the web have grown by 10 thousand units - Lombardy first with over 4.406 realities, but Campania and Basilicata grow the most
On the climatic front, Italy is split in two: showers and clouds in the North, scorching heat and record peaks in the South - Even if on and off, the weather in our country will be completely opposite in the next few days
After Vienna, the bank's roadshow continues in Germany to present the opportunities of the ZES of the South: for companies interested in investing in the Special Economic Zones, important tax breaks, financial advantages and simplified administrative and customs procedures.
The loan was disbursed by Unicredit, Natixis, Mps Capital Services, Banco BPM, Credit Agricole Italia and Intesa Sanpaolo.
INTERVIEW WITH CLAUDIO DE VINCENTI, former Minister of the South - "The closure of Taranto would be a tragedy for the city" and not only that but the Government should clarify its objectives - "Milan should not be criticized, but imitated" - A Manifesto…
Signed Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop liquidity, guarantee and alternative finance instruments to support Italian companies to improve their access to credit, also with a view to international expansion.
Since 200, 2 million residents have fled. The employment gap with respect to the Centre-North is increasing, while in 2019 the South falls into stagnation
In inaugurating the Fiera del Levante in Bari, the prime minister outlined the lines of Southern policy, with an important clarification: "The public bank of the South will coordinate existing structures", therefore without duplication.
Southern Italy is growing less than Greece and accentuates the gap with the rest of the country and Europe - In 15 years, 2 million southerners have emigrated - But its problems cannot be solved either with Income...
According to the report on Southern Italy, the rift between the North and South of the country is dramatically widening again: staggering numbers on jobs, investments and public services.
A pamphlet by economists Antonio Accetturo and Guido De Blasio demonstrates that decades of public programs for the South have not only failed to reduce the gap with the rest of the country, but in many cases have done damage.
The serene returns to Italy, after a week, that of Easter and 25 April, marked by unstable weather and rainfall, especially in the North but in the first phase also in the Centre-South. The Liberation bridge, which started not so well under the…
The company led by Paolo Gallo has exercised the "call" option to purchase 40% of the energy management company's share capital
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…
According to Eurostat, compared to the European average of 30 euros, the Mezzogiorno has an average of 18.900 euros of GDP per capita - Here is the ranking of the regions
Signed two agreements aimed at supporting entrepreneurship in southern Italy with two fundamental objectives: to support access to credit for companies and to enhance the strengths of the southern economic fabric.
Svimez presents her report on public utility services which shows that the multiplier on the development of Southern Italy's Citizenship Income is equal to one third of what an investment of the same size would have…
Bad weather hits the peninsula imposing a sharp drop in temperatures. Snow expected in Tuscany and in the North East and on Thursday also in the surroundings of Rome, while storm surges and strong winds are expected in the South. Civil Defense has…
The agreement provides for a simplification of the loan preliminary procedure through an integration of the operational processes of the Bank and Confidi
Among the consequences of any EU measure, in addition to a maxi fine equal to 0,5% of GDP and the blocking of loans by the EIB, there is also the possible freezing of funds for developing regions -…
The bank has joined the initiative promoted by Mise, Bei, Fei and the European Commission with the aim of facilitating access to credit and encouraging investments by SMEs operating in Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Puglia, Sicily, Abruzzo, Molise and Sardinia
The South, which has a GDP higher than that of Greece and Portugal together, is experiencing a real social emergency but is not fatally destined for a perennial condition of structural lag: you have to decide what you want it to be and…
Di Maio promises that "47% of the families receiving the basic income will be in the centre-north", but, given the data in hand, the accounts do not add up and the five-star measure-symbol, approved by the Council of Ministers in the budget maneuver , continues…
In the last 16 years, 221 graduates have moved their residence from the South to the North in order to find work. The youngest and most "trained" people leave at noon.
In the national reform program included in the Def, the Government does not ask for new funds for the extraordinary plan for Made in Italy or to refinance the so-called "Nuova Sabatini" - The commitments in favor of the South are also vague, ...
A wave of bad weather is hitting almost all of Italy, from North to South, with heavy rains, strong winds, storm surges and a sharp drop in temperatures (up to 10 degrees lower) - According to the Civil Protection, the most …
In 2017, the number of Italians in conditions of absolute poverty exceeded the threshold of 5 million, the highest figure since 2005 - The families involved are almost 2 million - Relative poverty is also growing (quantified in…
290 million of new funds allocated for smart grids and electricity networks with the support of the Invitalia company. On the planning of European resources, the uncertainties of the Lega-M5S government. The chapter dedicated to the South is disappointing.
The success of the Five Stars in the last political elections has been attributed to the proposal of the citizen's income but it is a reductive interpretation because in reality the southern dissatisfaction calls into question the role of the institutions as an obstacle to development
Italia Venture II – Fondo Imprese Sud is a new private equity instrument established by the 2018 Stability Law and managed by Invitalia Ventures, the asset management company controlled by Invitalia.
Memorandum of understanding that launches a program of information, promotion and entrepreneurial support actions, which will use the network and services offered by the Chamber system to enhance the incentives managed by Invitalia, in particular Resto al Sud.
Investments with a high technological content, not yet completed, are eligible in the 12 specialization areas indicated by the National Smart Specialization Strategy (aerospace, agrifood, blue growth, green chemistry, design, creativity and made in Italy, energy, smart factory, sustainable mobility , Health,…
