Fast forward on the reforms useful for the NRP, to reach the 55 objectives by the end of the year and receive a new installment of 19 billion euros. It is the first point of the new government pact that Mario Draghi, in his communications to the Senate, asks the parties to sign by voting for confidence. ‘Completing the program is a matter of seriousness towards our citizens and towards our European partners’, the Prime Minister said in the Chamber, without discounting the requests of the majority parties.
REFORMS FOR PNRR – The delegated decrees of the procurement code reform must be fired by March 2023 (‘We must keep the mafias away from the PNRR’); the competition bill, with the liberalization of taxis and bathing concessions inside, must pass before the summer break; the procedure envisaged for the decrees implementing the enabling law on the reform of civil, criminal and tax justice must be completed by the end of the year. Meanwhile, investments in infrastructures for railways, broadband, kindergartens and intangible ones must continue against the ‘useless bureaucracy’ for the benefit of local authorities.
REFORM TAX – On the tax side, the intention is to reduce the personal income tax rates starting from medium-low incomes, overcome IRAP and rationalize VAT: ‘We must approve the law as soon as possible, with the completion of the tax collection reform, and immediately enact after the implementing decrees, ‘says Draghi.
SOCIAL AGENDA – The government intends to define with the social partners the interventions to be implemented in the next maneuver. But no budget variances, because ‘the trend in public finance is better than expected’.
DECREE AUGUST – Among the first commitments of the new pact, the adoption ‘within the first days of August of a substantial measure to mitigate the impact on citizens and businesses of the increase in energy costs, and then to strengthen purchasing power, especially of the weaker sections of the population ‘. This is the 10 billion decree that is still awaiting a solution to the government crisis.
WEDGE CUTTING AND CONTRACTS – The interventions indicated on work and pensions are part of the government’s social agenda. The first is cutting the wedge to reduce the tax burden on workers, starting with the lowest wages. A ‘medium-term objective’ that will be further approached with another intervention ‘in the short term, within the limits allowed by our financial resources’. Then there is the renewal of collective agreements ‘many of which, including those for trade and services, which have expired for too many years’.
MINIMUM WAGE AND INCOME – The reference of the minimum wage is the new European directive to ensure ‘decent wage levels for the groups of workers most suffering’. Citizenship income must be ‘improved to favor those most in need and reduce the negative effects on the labor market’.
PENSIONS – Furthermore, there is a need for a pension reform that guarantees flexibility mechanisms in exit in a sustainable system, anchored to the contribution system.
SUPERBONUS – Changes also necessary for the Superbonus. The aim is to ‘address the critical issues in the sale of tax credits, while reducing the generosity of contributions’.
PRINCIPAL DOCTORS AND DIFFERENTIATED AUTONOMY – Among the other commitments that the executive wants to assume is the reform of the general practitioner system and the discussion for the recognition of differentiated forms of autonomy. A passage also on interventions to improve the management of water resources and on a real ‘water plan’ defined as ‘urgent’.
WEAPONS TO UKRAINE – In foreign policy Draghi claimed Italy’s position in Europe and NATO, reaffirming the commitment to peace but also the will to support Kiev “in every way”. Because, “as President Zelensky told me yesterday on the phone, arming Ukraine – he explained – is the only way to allow the Ukrainians to defend themselves”.
RUSSIAN GAS AND REGASIFIERS – The essential objective is to go ahead with the policies aimed at reducing Russian gas imports to ‘eliminate them within a year and a half’. So: diversification of sources, sprinting on renewables and infrastructures. In this regard, the installation of the two regasifiers in Ravenna and Piombino stands out, the latter to be completed by next spring: ‘It’s a question of national security’, Draghi cuts short. At the European level, the line is to continue fighting for ‘a ceiling on the price of Russian gas and for the reform of the electricity market’.
Source: Ansa
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