Meloni: confident about growth, +1% within reach. Commitment to correct 'green deal'

"I greatly appreciated President Orsini's report, I agree with many points and proposals, as well as the scenario analysis and the proposals and on the risks that the Italian and European economies run if the trends are not decisively reversed". So said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the opening of her first speech at the 2024 Assembly of Confindustria, in Rome.

"Crises always conceal an opportunity: for you, the opportunity was to demonstrate how Italy, thanks to its productive fabric, was at the end of the day more tenacious than others. This has made us all more aware and that awareness allows the government to look at the economic picture today, in spite of everything, with positivity, I would like to say with optimism, a word that is rarely used in Italy," added the Prime Minister, for whom, despite "the constant alarmism, the forecasts that are obviously hardly ever favourable, we must, I think, be satisfied with the results that we have achieved, especially if we take into consideration the context in which we have operated over the last two years.

In this context Meloni said she was "confident that we can do better than the Commission's forecasts: I still believe that +1% GDP is within reach especially after the first two quarters, any triumphalism would be childish but it was not to be taken for granted after years at the bottom of the charts". "It is not the state that creates wealth, but companies and their workers. The state must do its part, create the most favourable environment possible. And we have guaranteed stability, which in Italy is an exception. We designed a strategy for the nation, and if there are no ideas there can be no investments,' added Meloni, who explained: 'We gave a clear message that the state would not bother those who wanted to do but would walk beside them as an ally. We also said 'no' when it had to be said, because citizens' money is not thrown out of the window."

As for the budget law, it will be 'inspired by common sense and seriousness, with particular attention to families, businesses and the defence of citizens' health'. So said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during her speech at the Confindustria assembly. "In the end we will define which measures can give the greatest multiplier, following the approach we have had in recent years. There will be these priorities, those that we have continued to indicate, there will be no other things, there will be no bonuses for renovation, there will be no second and third homes, there will be no citizenship income for those who can work, there will be no bonuses, all this is not there because that season is definitely over and I think Italy needed to close this season, to say enough to this habit of throwing money out of the window a little bit."