A breakthrough? For the South, yes, says Mara Carfagna, Minister for the South and Territorial Cohesion. The decree law on new infrastructure approved by the government in the last session of the Council of Ministers arrives a few days after the study by Confcommercio on the flight of young people from the southern regions https://www.firstonline.info/sud-in-25-anni-persi-16-milioni-di-giovani/. Tens of billions to be spent in the next few years with a sustainable value to shorten the distances between North and South, to stop the bleeding of heads and arms. Work is being done to fill very strong inequalities in many sectors that obscure the amount of innovation present in Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Sicily, Puglia.
We must demolish the invisible wall that divides the South from the rest of the country in terms of infrastructure, school buildings, territorial planning, the environment: was the government's comment. Compared to Conte, Draghi is accelerating recovery projects that need to restart the necessary interventions for the movement of people, goods and goods. The asphyxiation of the Southern economy needs railway junctions, connections, schools, energy networks, digitalisation. Until a year ago this was the list of tired repetitions from forums and talk shows. We are at the point and at the head. When he reopened the drawers and dossiers bequeathed by those who professed happy degrowth, he was against incinerators, gas pipelines, tunnels. Private investments - not without contradictions - are finally joined by a new state intervention combined in a sustainable key.
Four main points of interest. The new regulation on fund equalization, for example, which will make it possible to release the infrastructure equalization fund with an endowment of 4,6 billion euros for the years 2022-2033. Circular governance is ensured by the inclusion of the Minister for the South in the control room for school construction - another example - which will guarantee a more equitable distribution of resources for kindergartens and nursery schools. 120 million euros will then allow 4.600 Italian Municipalities (all those under 30 inhabitants in the South and inland) to equip themselves with a 'pool of projects' suitable for the opportunities that the Municipalities themselves derive from the PNRR or other instruments. "I'm staying in the South", the program for keep young people in their homelands using them in sectors such as heritage protection or new zero-impact structures is being relaunched. It is also extended to the insular territories of the municipalities of the smaller islands which will have to dialogue with young people.
Creating a system without wasting resources, intervening in the most complicated part of the country, moving away from propaganda intentions. It is the operational line desired by Draghi. A sidereal distance even from the Berlusconi governments so fond of sophisticated electoral maquillage. Minister Carfagna must therefore be acknowledged for having been able to reopen the Southern chapter with a new perspective. She acknowledges it: “Too often in the past – she comments – we have seen only 'facade' endowments allocated to the South, which in reality were absorbed elsewhere. I thank Prime Minister Mario Draghi and all my colleagues for the sensitivity with which they have taken note of this problem and for the determination with which they have decided to face it without further postponements". There is always time to get back into discussion.
