Banks, Giorgetti: benefit from spread and Italy's rating, now support families

The work done here by the Meloni government "has been perceived" abroad, as seen "by the spread and the rating" of Italy, and this "has produced positive results for businesses, families, and financial institutions". Thus the Minister for the Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, who, speaking via video link-up at the Rimini Meeting, wanted to give what he called a "little pinch" also "to the banks, which lend more favourable conditions, but all this must then be translated into concrete benefits for families".

The work carried out by the government 'has been perceived, has been translated' into elements such as 'the spread affair, the country's rating affair. I still distinguish between the official one and the perceived one: the official one still does not fully reflect how our country is actually perceived,' the minister commented

"It would be important for complementary pension funds financed with workers' contributions to look more to the Italian system than abroad, in what are long-term infrastructural investments that give a secure, non-speculative return," added Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti speaking at the Rimini Meeting at a panel on 'Ageing Population and Social Security'. 'If we work as a system not simply as a State as institutions and also as the Third Sector, this country has unexpressed energies that can still improve,' he explained.

"I think that the approach that this government, my ministry, and I have had in these three years is an approach that, on the one hand, stems from an awareness of the ultimate goal of how to build a house, what is the house we would like, because in our country a house is not built to be torn down after 20 years, but a house is made to last; at the same time, as our elders say, you cannot build it starting from the roof, you have to start from the foundations, working seriously, responsibly, and also humbly, and carrying one brick after another,' Giorgetti argued. 'This is what we have been doing, I believe in silence, but the results are beginning to be seen,' he added: 'we are beginning to see what are the solid foundations, on which we can then build and enrich the house for the future'.