'Young people our rare land, resources to those who create new companies'

Every year more than 100,000 young people leave the Mezzogiorno to go to the North...

In this context, the measure of a flat tax at 7% in the South for pensioners arriving from abroad gives pause for thought. We do measures like this and instead do nothing to retain the young people we have trained.

'Filiera futuro' is the slogan you identified as soon as you were appointed president of the Giovani di Confindustria. What can it be concretised into?

Birth rate, education, innovation, young companies: this is the future supply chain, elements that are the lifeblood of a country, issues to which Italia devotes only 9% of its 1,100 billion in public spending. There are certainly long-term policies to be implemented, but in the meantime we can act in the short term. Not only the Entrepreneurship Grant, which I mentioned earlier: Irpef could be lowered for employees under 35 by providing an exemption on decreasing incomes for five years up to 50,000 euro. We need to make young people believe in the country again. It is important that in Europe we go ahead with the 28th regime project that will allow people to open a business in 24 hours online, with 100 euro and no minimum capital. Having the same rules for all 27 EU countries would facilitate the birth of start-ups and ensure that, hopefully they will become unicorns, they can stay in Europe, without going abroad for too much red tape.

The youth question was one of the priority topics at the meeting of Confindustria and the Bank of Italia. Representatives of all parties are present at the conference: what do you hope will emerge from the debate?

We have already initiated a discussion with the under-40s of all political forces. We expect a deep awareness of the problem from politicians. And that a courageous spending review can be implemented to find the resources to allocate to young people, along with the need to address the country's structural problems, from energy to bureaucracy. The law on the generational impact of measures has been passed, which is certainly positive. But there is a need to act today, immediately, quickly: dispersing the youth resource means delaying innovation, falling behind in the digital challenge, in the use of artificial intelligence. And thus not recovering the productivity that is fundamental for the country's growth.

In Rapallo on 5 and 6 June "People. Our promise for the future' is the title of the Convention of Confindustria's Young Entrepreneurs to be held in Rapallo on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 June. The conference will be opened by the President of the Young Entrepreneurs, Maria Anghileri, and the President of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini, will speak at the end. Among the participants: Ministers Antonio Tajani, Adolfo Urso. Political leaders Matteo Renzi, Carlo Calenda, Elly Schlein and speakers from the world of economics and finance