Foti: with Green deal Italy risks deindustrialisation

"Europe must be, not a banning machine, but an instrument that actually promotes business growth. The basic error is that we are paying a Green Deal policy that makes no sense: if we keep going down this path we have the deindustrialisation of the country'. With the risk of social tensions. This is what Tommaso Foti, Minister for European Affairs, the NRP and Cohesion Policies, said while speaking at the Forum in Masseria. 'The automotive industry,' he added, 'weighs heavily in Europe and 13 million families derive their livelihood from the sector, to say nothing of all the supply chains. If we keep talking about the sex of angels, it will be very fascinating philosophically, but politically bankrupt'.

"Cohesion operates over an average period of seven years. In terms of programming, even the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics stopped at five-year plans. If you go with a faster programming plan, you get better results'. This was emphasised by the Minister for European Affairs, the NRP and Cohesion Policies, Tommaso Foti, speaking at the Forum in Masseria di Manduria. 'We are talking,' he continued, 'about the 2028-2034 programming period, which is a fairly decisive period in terms of Europe's ability to catch up. In this last phase, with the programming envisaged by Fitto, cohesion resources can be allocated to other areas. For the regional part, the adhesion of all regions must be acquired individually. There is the problem that the regional resources must be contracted region by region.".

To make housing 'two things are needed: clearing a whole series of regulations that suggest not to make new houses. Then the real issue is urban regeneration, which cannot but be accompanied by fiscal measures'. The minister responds about the need for the creation of an ad hoc ministry for this area. "Then I think of the measure that vice president Fitto was thinking of, which was to say to the regions: we have all suffering capitals, instead of using European resources for measures that are at least questionable, let's use them to bridge the housing gap".

In the opinion of Ance vice-president Massimo Angelo Deldossi, who attended the Forum, 'to really have an impact on energy costs and enable companies and families to make significant savings on their bills, we need to cut energy consumption. The Green Homes Directive gives us the opportunity to cut consumption by at least 50%, but to achieve these goals we need strong governance, bringing together all the funds supporting redevelopment that already exist: European, national, investment funds and private capital. This is the first point of the decalogue that Ance has drawn up for energy efficiency'.