The vote of confidence in the Draghi government is expected for this evening after 22pm.
Tomorrow it will be the turn of the Chamber. Secretary Dem Zingaretti launches the appeal to the other political forces that support the Executive: 'Now enough quarrels. We are there '.
The premier's speech in the hall of Palazzo Madama
The first thought I would like to share, in asking for your trust, concerns the our national responsibility. The main duty to which we are all called, myself as Prime Minister, is to fight the pandemic by any means and to safeguard the lives of our fellow citizens. A trench where we all fight together. The virus is everyone's enemy. And it is in the moving memory of those who are no longer there that our commitment grows. Before illustrating my program, I would like to address another thought, participatory and solidarity, to all those who suffer from the economic crisis that the pandemic has unleashed, to those who work in the most affected or stopped for health reasons. We know their reasons, we are aware of their enormous sacrifice and we thank them. We are committed to doing everything so that they can return, as soon as possible, in the recognition of their rights, to the normality of their occupations. We are committed to informing citizens sufficiently in advance, as far as compatible with the rapid evolution of the pandemic, of any changes in the rules.
The government will make the reforms but will also address the emergency. There is no before and after. We are aware of Cavour's teaching: "... the reforms completed in time, instead of weakening authority, strengthen it". But in the meantime we have to take care of those who suffer now, those who lose their jobs today or are forced to close their business.
In thanking, once again, the President of the Republic for the honor of the office that has been assigned to me, I would like to tell you that in my long professional life there has never been a moment of so intense emotion and such extensive responsibility. I also thank my predecessor Giuseppe Conte who faced a health and economic emergency situation as never happened since the unification of Italy.
There has been much discussion about the nature of this government. Republican history has dispensed with an infinite variety of formulas. Out of respect that we all have for the institutions and for the proper functioning of a representative democracy, an executive like the one I have the honor of presiding, especially in a dramatic situation like the one we are experiencing, is simply the government of the country. It doesn't need any adjectives to define it. It summarizes the will, the awareness, the sense of responsibility of the political forces that support him, who have been asked to renounce for the good of all, of their own voters as well as of the voters of other camps, including the opposition, of all Italian citizens. This is the republican spirit of a government that is born in an emergency situation by collecting the high indication of the head of state.
The growth of a country's economy does not arise only from economic factors. It depends on the institutions, on the trust of citizens in them, on the sharing of values and hopes. The same factors determine the progress of a country.
It has been said and written that this government was made necessary by the failure of politics. Allow me to disagree. Nobody takes a step back from their own identity but if anything, in a new and completely unusual perimeter of collaboration, they take a step forward in responding to the needs of the country, in approaching the daily problems of families and businesses that know well when it is the time to work together, without prejudice and rivalry.
In the most difficult moments of our history, the highest and noblest expression of politics has been translated into courageous choices, in visions that until a moment before seemed impossible. Because before any of our belonging, the duty of citizenship comes.
We are citizens of a country that asks us to do everything possible, without wasting time, without sparing even the smallest effort, to fight the pandemic and counter the economic crisis. And today, the politicians and technicians who make up this new executive are all simply Italian citizens, honored to serve their country, all equally aware of the task that has been entrusted to us.
This is the republican spirit of my government.
The duration of governments in Italy has been short on average but this has not prevented, even in dramatic moments in the life of the nation, from making decisive choices for the future of our children and grandchildren. What counts is the quality of decisions, the courage of visions counts, the days do not count. The time of power can be wasted even in the mere concern of conserving it. Today we have, as happened to the governments of the immediate post-war period, the possibility, or rather the responsibility, to start a New Reconstruction. Italy recovered from the disaster of the Second World War with pride and determination and laid the foundations of the economic miracle thanks to investments and work. But above all thanks to the belief that the future of subsequent generations would be better for everyone. In mutual trust, in national brotherhood, in the pursuit of a civic and moral redemption. Political forces that are ideologically distant if not opposed to that Reconstruction collaborated. I am sure that even in this New Reconstruction nobody will miss their contribution in the distinction of roles and identities. This is our mission as Italians: to deliver a better and fairer country to our children and grandchildren.
I have often wondered if we, and I am referring first of all to my generation, have done and are doing for them everything that our grandparents and fathers did for us, sacrificing themselves beyond measure. It is a question we must ask ourselves when we do not do everything necessary to best promote human capital, education, school, university and culture. A question to which we must give concrete and urgent answers when we disappoint our young people by forcing them to emigrate from a country that too often cannot evaluate merit and has not yet achieved effective gender equality. A question that we cannot avoid when we increase our public debt without having spent and invested in the best possible way resources that are always scarce. Every waste today is a wrong that we do to the next generations, a subtraction of their rights. I express in front of you, who are the elected representatives of the Italians, the hope that the desire and the need to build a better future will guide our decisions wisely. In the hope that the young Italians who will take our place, even here in this room, will thank us for our work and have nothing to blame for our selfishness.
This government was born in the wake of our country's belonging, as a founding member, to the European Union, and as a protagonist of the Atlantic Alliance, in the wake of the great Western democracies, in defense of their inalienable principles and values. Supporting this government means sharing the irreversibility of the choice of the euro, it means sharing the perspective of an increasingly integrated European Union that will arrive at a common public budget capable of supporting countries in times of recession. The nation states remain the reference of our citizens, but in the areas defined by their weakness they surrender national sovereignty to acquire shared sovereignty. Indeed, in our convinced belonging to the destiny of Europe we are even more Italian, even closer to our territories of origin or residence. We must be proud of Italy's contribution to the growth and development of the European Union. Without Italy there is no Europe. But, outside of Europe there is less Italy. There is no sovereignty in solitude. There is only the deception of what we are, in the oblivion of what we have been and in the denial of what we could be. We are a great economic and cultural power. I have always been amazed and a little saddened in recent years, to notice how often the judgment of others on our country is better than ours. We have to be prouder, fairer and more generous towards our country. And recognize the many firsts, the profound wealth of our social capital, of our volunteering, which others envy us.
The state of the country after a year of pandemic
Since the epidemic exploded, there have been - official data underestimate the phenomenon - 92.522 deaths, 2.725.106 citizens affected by the virus, at this moment 2.074 are hospitalized in intensive care. There are 259 deaths among health workers and 118.856 are those infected, demonstrating an enormous sacrifice sustained with generosity and commitment. Figures that have put a strain on the national health system, subtracting personnel and resources from the prevention and treatment of other diseases, with serious consequences on the health of many Italians.
Due to the pandemic, life expectancy has decreased: up to 4 - 5 years in the areas of greatest contagion; a year and a half - two less for the entire Italian population. A similar decline has not been recorded in Italy since the two world wars.
The spread of the virus has also had very serious consequences on the economic and social fabric of our country. With significant impacts on employment, especially that of young people and women. A phenomenon destined to worsen when the prohibition on dismissal disappears.
Poverty has also worsened. The data from the Caritas listening centers, which compare the period May-September of 2019 with the same period of 2020, show that from one year to the next the incidence of the "new poor" goes from 31% to 45%: almost one out of two people who turn to Caritas today do so for the first time. Among the new poor, the weight of families with minors, women, young people, Italians, who are now the majority (52% compared to 47,9% last year) and people of working age, of citizens so far never touched by poverty.
The total number of hours of redundancy fund for health emergency from 1 April to 31 December last year exceeds 4 million. In 2020, the number of employees fell by 444 thousand units but the decline was concentrated on fixed-term contracts (-393 thousand) and self-employed workers (-209). The pandemic has so far affected mainly young people and women, a selective unemployment but which could soon begin to affect workers with permanent contracts as well.
The effects on inequality are serious and with few historical precedents. In the absence of public interventions, the Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality in income distribution, would have increased, in the first half of 2020 (according to a recent estimate), by 4 percentage points, compared to 34.8% in 2019. This increase would have been greater than that accumulated during the two recent recessions. However, the rise in inequality has been mitigated by the safety nets in our social security system, in particular by the measures that have strengthened them since the start of the pandemic. However, the fact remains that our social security system is unbalanced, not sufficiently protecting citizens with fixed-term jobs and self-employed workers.
The forecasts published last week by the European Commission indicate that although in 2020 the European recession was less severe than expected - and that therefore in just over a year the pre-pandemic levels of economic activity should recover - in Italy this will not happen before the end of 2022, in a context in which, before the pandemic, we had not yet fully recovered the effects of the crises of 2008-09 and 2011-13.
The spread of Covid has caused deep wounds in our communities, not only on the health and economic level, but also on the cultural and educational one. Girls and boys, especially those in second grade secondary schools, have had school service through Distance Learning which, while guaranteeing the continuity of the service, cannot but create inconvenience and highlight inequalities. One figure clarifies the current dynamics better: compared to 1.696.300 secondary school students, in the first week of February only 1.039.372 students (61,2% of the total) had the service ensured through Didactics a Distance.
The priorities to restart
This unprecedented emergency situation requires us to take a path of unity and common commitment with decision and speed.
The vaccination plan. Scientists in just 12 months have worked a miracle: it had never happened that a new vaccine could be produced in less than a year. Our first challenge is to get enough of it to distribute it quickly and efficiently.
We need to mobilize all the energies we can count on, using civil protection, the armed forces, the many volunteers. We must not limit vaccinations within specific places, often not yet ready: we have a duty to make them possible in all available structures, public and private. Building on the experience gained with tampons which, after an initial delay, were also allowed outside the restricted circle of authorized hospitals. And above all by learning from countries that have moved faster than us by immediately having adequate quantities of vaccines. Speed is essential not only to protect individuals and their social communities, but now also to reduce the chances of other variants of the virus arising.
Based on the experience of recent months, we must open an all-out discussion on the reform of our health care. The central point is to strengthen and redesign territorial health, creating a strong network of basic services (community houses, community hospitals, counseling centers, mental health centers, proximity centers against health poverty). This is the way to make the “Essential levels of assistance” truly payable and to entrust the acute, post-acute and rehabilitative health needs to hospitals. The "home as the main place of care" is now possible with telemedicine, with integrated home care.
The school: not only do we need to quickly return to normal school hours, even distributing them over different time slots, but we must do everything possible, in the most suitable ways, to recover the hours of face-to-face teaching lost last year, especially in the southern regions of Italy. which distance teaching has encountered greater difficulties.
It is necessary to review the design of the annual school path. Align the school calendar to the needs deriving from the experience lived since the beginning of the pandemic. The return to school must be done safely.
It is necessary to invest in a cultural transition starting from the internationally recognized humanistic identity heritage. We are called to design an educational path that combines the necessary adherence to the required quality standards, even in the European panorama, with the addition of new subjects and methodologies, and to combine scientific skills with those of the humanities and multilingualism areas.
Finally, it is necessary to invest in the training of teaching staff to align the educational offer to the demand of the new generations.
In this perspective, particular attention should be paid to ITIS (technical institutes). In France and Germany, for example, these institutions are an important pillar of the education system. The need for graduates from technical institutes in the digital and environmental area has been estimated at approximately 3 million in the five-year period 2019-23. The National Recovery and Resilience Program awards ITIS 1,5bn, 20 times the funding of a normal pre-pandemic year. Without innovating the current organization of these schools, we risk those resources being wasted.
Globalization, digital transformation and ecological transition have been changing the labor market for years and require continuous adjustments in university education. At the same time, it is necessary to invest adequately in research, without excluding basic research, aiming for excellence, that is, research that is internationally recognized for the impact it produces on new knowledge and new models in all scientific fields. Finally, it is necessary to build on the distance teaching experience gained in the last year, developing its potential with the use of digital tools that can be used in face-to-face teaching.
Beyond the pandemic
When we get out, and get out of the pandemic, what world will we find? Some think that the tragedy we lived in for more than 12 months was akin to a long power outage. Sooner or later the light returns, and everything starts again as before. Science, but just common sense, suggests that this may not be the case.
Global warming has direct effects on our lives and our health, from pollution, to hydrogeological fragility, to sea level rise that could make large areas of some coastal cities no longer habitable. The space that some megacities have taken away from nature may have been one of the causes of the transmission of the virus from animals to humans.
As Pope Francis said "Natural tragedies are the earth's response to our mistreatment. And I think if I asked the Lord what he thinks, I don't think he would tell me it's a good thing: we ruined the Lord's work.".
Protecting the future of the environment, reconciling it with progress and social well-being, requires a new approach: digitization, agriculture, health, energy, aerospace, cloud computing, schools and education, territorial protection, biodiversity, global warming and the greenhouse effect, they are different faces of a multifaceted challenge that sees at the center the ecosystem in which all human actions will develop.
Also in our country some growth models will have to change. For example the model of tourism, a business that before the pandemic accounted for 14 percent of our total economic activity. Companies and workers in that sector must be helped to emerge from the disaster created by the pandemic. But without forgetting that our tourism will have a future if we do not forget that it thrives on our ability to preserve, that is, at least not waste, cities of art, places and traditions that successive generations over many centuries have been able to preserve and have handed down to us.
Getting out of the pandemic will not be like turning the light back on. This observation, which scientists do not stop repeating to us, has an important consequence. The government will have to protect workers, all workers, but it would be a mistake to protect all economic activities equally. Some will have to change, even radically. And the choice of which activities to protect and which to accompany in the change is the difficult task that economic policy will have to face in the coming months.
The adaptability of our production system and unprecedented interventions made it possible to preserve the workforce in a dramatic year: seven million workers benefited from wage integration tools for a total of 4 billion hours. Thanks to these measures, also supported by the European Commission through the SURE program, it was possible to limit the negative effects on employment. Young people, women and the self-employed paid the highest price. First of all, we must think about them when we prepare a strategy to support businesses and work, a strategy that will have to coordinate the sequence of interventions on work, credit and capital.
Active labor policies are central. In order for them to be immediately operational, it is necessary to improve existing instruments, such as the reallocation allowance, by strengthening the training policies of employed and unemployed workers. The staffing and digital equipment of the employment centers in agreement with the regions must also be strengthened. This project is already part of the National Recovery and Resilience Program but will be anticipated immediately.
Climate change, like the pandemic, penalizes some production sectors without there being an expansion in other sectors that can compensate. We must therefore be the ones to ensure this expansion and we must do it now.
The economic policy response to climate change and the pandemic will have to be a combination of structural policies that facilitate innovation, financial policies that facilitate the access of businesses capable of growing to capital and credit, and expansive monetary and fiscal policies that facilitate investment and create demand for the new sustainable businesses that have been created.
We want to leave a good planet, not just a good currency.
Gender equality
The mobilization of all the energies of the country in its revival cannot ignore the involvement of women. The gender gap in employment rates in Italy remains among the highest in Europe: around 18 points out of a European average of 10. Since the postwar period, the situation has improved significantly, but this increase has not gone hand in hand with a equally evident improvement in the career conditions of women. Italy today has one of the worst wage gaps between genders in Europe, as well as a chronic shortage of women in senior managerial positions.
True gender equality does not mean a pharisaic respect for women's quotas required by law: it requires equal competitive conditions between genders to be guaranteed. We intend to work in this sense, aiming at a rebalancing of the wage gap and a welfare system that allows women to devote the same energy to their career as their male colleagues, overcoming the choice between family or work.
Ensuring a level playing field also means making sure that everyone has equal access to training in those key skills that will increasingly enable them to advance - digital, technological and environmental. We therefore intend to invest, economically but above all culturally, so that more and more young women choose to train in the areas on which we intend to relaunch the country. Only in this way will we be able to ensure that the best resources are involved in the development of the country.
The South
Increase in employment, primarily female, is an essential objective: well-being, self-determination, legality, security are closely linked to the increase in female employment in the South. Developing the ability to attract national and international private investments is essential to generate income, create jobs, reverse the demographic decline and depopulation of inland areas. But to achieve this goal it is necessary to create an environment where legality and safety are always guaranteed. There are also specific instruments such as the tax credit and other interventions to be agreed at the European level.
To be able to spend and spend well, using the investments dedicated by the Next Generation EU, it is necessary to strengthen the southern administrations, also looking carefully at the experience of a past that has often disappointed hope.
Public investments
In terms of infrastructures, it is necessary to invest in the technical, legal and economic preparation of public officials to allow administrations to be able to plan, design and accelerate investments with certainty of timing, costs and in full compatibility with the sustainability and growth guidelines indicated in the Program national recovery and resilience. Particular attention should be paid to investments in the maintenance of the works and in the protection of the territory, encouraging the use of predictive techniques based on the most recent developments in terms of artificial intelligence and digital technologies. The private sector must be invited to participate in the implementation of public investments by bringing more than finance, expertise, efficiency and innovation to accelerate the implementation of projects in compliance with the expected costs.
Next Generation US
The strategy for the Next Generation EU projects can only be transversal and synergistic, based on the principle of co-benefits, that is, with the ability to impact multiple sectors simultaneously, in a coordinated manner.
We will have to learn to prevent rather than repair, not only by deploying all the technologies at our disposal but also by investing in the awareness of the new generations that “every action has a consequence”.
As has been repeated several times, we will have around 210 billion available over a period of six years.
These resources will have to be spent aiming to improve the growth potential of our economy. The share of additional loans that we will request through the main component of the program, the Instrument for Recovery and Resilience, will have to be modulated according to public finance objectives.
The previous government has already done a great deal of work on the Recovery and Resilience Program (PNRR). We need to deepen and complete that work which, including the necessary talks with the European Commission, would have a very short deadline, the end of April.
The guidelines that Parliament will express in the coming days to comment on the draft Program presented by the outgoing Government will be of fundamental importance in the preparation of its final version. Here I want to summarize the orientation of the new government.
The Missions of the Program may be remodeled and re-merged, but those set out in the previous documents of the outgoing government will remain, namely innovation, digitization, competitiveness and culture; the ecological transition; infrastructure for sustainable mobility; training and research; social, gender, generational and territorial equity; health and the related production chain.
We will have to strengthen the Program first of all with regard to strategic objectives and the accompanying reforms.
Strategic objectives
The Program has so far been built on the basis of high-level objectives and aggregating project proposals into missions, components and project lines. In the coming weeks we will strengthen the strategic dimension of the Program, in particular with regard to the objectives concerning the production of energy from renewable sources, air and water pollution, the fast rail network, the energy distribution networks for vehicles. with electric propulsion, the production and distribution of hydrogen, digitalization, broadband and 5G communication networks.
The role of the state and the scope of its interventions will have to be carefully evaluated. The task of the state is to use the levers of expenditure on research and development, education and training, regulation, incentives and taxation.
On the basis of this strategic vision, the National Recovery and Resilience Program will indicate objectives for the next decade and longer term, with an intermediate stage for the final year of the Next Generation EU, 2026. It will not be enough to list the projects that we want complete in the next few years. We will have to say where we want to go in 2026 and what we aim for in 2030 and 2050, the year in which the European Union intends to achieve zero net emissions of CO2 and climate-altering gases.
We will select projects and initiatives consistent with the strategic objectives of the Program, paying great attention to their feasibility over the six years of the program. We will also ensure that the employment momentum of the Program is sufficiently high in each of the six years, including 2021.
We will clarify the role of the third sector and the contribution of private individuals to the National Recovery and Resilience Program through leveraged financing mechanisms (fund of funds).
We will underline the role of the school which plays so much in the objectives of social and territorial cohesion and the one dedicated to social inclusion and active labor policies.
In healthcare we will have to use these projects to lay the foundations, as indicated above, to strengthen territorial medicine and telemedicine.
The governance of the Recovery and Resilience Program is based in the Ministry of Economy and Finance with the very close collaboration of the competent Ministries that define the sector's policies and projects. Parliament will be constantly informed both on the overall system and on sectoral policies.
Finally, the chapter of reforms that I will now address separately.
The reforms
The Next generation EU foresees reforms. Some concern problems that have been open for decades but which must not be forgotten. These include the certainty of public investment regulations and plans, factors that limit investments, both Italian and foreign. also competition: I will ask the Antitrust Authority for competition and the market to produce its proposals in this field in a short time, as required by the Annual Law on Competition (Law 23 July 2009, no. 99).
In recent years, our attempts to reform the country have not been entirely absent, but their concrete effects have been limited. Perhaps the problem lies in the way in which we have often designed the reforms: with partial interventions dictated by the urgency of the moment, without a comprehensive vision that requires time and competence. In the case of the taxman, to give an example, we must not forget that the tax system is a complex mechanism, the parts of which are linked to each other. It is not a good idea to change taxes one at a time. Comprehensive action also makes it more difficult for specific lobby groups to push the government to take written measures to benefit them.
Furthermore, the experiences of other countries show that tax reforms should be entrusted to experts, who know well what can happen if a tax is changed. For example, Denmark, in 2008, appointed a Commission of tax experts. The Commission met with political parties and social partners and only then presented its report to Parliament. The project provided for a cut in the tax burden equal to 2 points of GDP. The maximum marginal rate of income tax was reduced, while the exemption threshold was raised.
A similar method was followed in Italy at the beginning of the seventies of the last century when the government entrusted to a commission of experts, including Bruno Visentini and Cesare Cosciani, the task of redesigning our tax system, which had not been modified anymore. from the time of the Vanoni reform of 1951. The introduction of the income tax for individuals and the withholding tax for income from employees is due to that commission. A tax reform marks a decisive step in every country. It indicates priorities, it gives certainties, it offers opportunities, it is the cornerstone of budgetary policy
In this perspective, a profound revision of the personal income tax must be studied with the dual objective of simplifying and rationalizing the structure of the levy, gradually reducing the tax burden and preserving progressivity. A renewed and strengthened commitment in the fight against tax evasion will also be functional to the pursuit of these ambitious objectives.
The other reform that cannot be postponed is that of public administration. In the emergency, administrative action, at central level and in local and peripheral structures, has shown resilience and adaptability thanks to a widespread commitment to remote work and an intelligent use of the technologies at its disposal. The fragility of the system of public administrations and services of collective interest is, however, a reality that must be quickly addressed.
Particularly urgent is the clearing of the backlog accumulated during the pandemic. The offices will be asked to prepare a backlog disposal plan and communicate it to citizens.
The reform will have to move on two directives: investments in connectivity with also the creation of efficient platforms that are easy to use by citizens; continuous updating of the skills of public employees, also by selecting the best skills and aptitudes in hiring quickly, efficiently and safely, without forcing tens of thousands of candidates to wait very long.
In the field of justice the actions to be carried out are mainly those that fall within the context and expectations of the European Union. In the Country Specific Recommendations addressed to our country in 2019 and 2020, the Commission, while acknowledging the progress made in recent years, urges us: to increase the efficiency of the civil judicial system, by implementing and promoting the application of the reform decrees insolvency matters, ensuring a more efficient functioning of the courts, favoring the clearing of the backlog and better management of workloads, adopting simpler procedural rules, filling vacancies for administrative staff, reducing the differences that exist in the management of cases from court to court and finally by promoting the repression of corruption.
In ours international relations this government will be convinced pro-European and Atlanticist, in line with Italy's historical anchors: the European Union, the Atlantic Alliance, the United Nations. Anchors that we have chosen since the postwar period, in a path that has brought well-being, safety and international prestige. Our vocation in favor of effective multilateralism is profound, based on the irreplaceable role of the United Nations. Our attention and projection towards areas of natural priority interest, such as the Balkans, the enlarged Mediterranean, with particular attention to Libya and the eastern Mediterranean, and to Africa remains strong.
The most recent years have seen a growing push to build privileged bilateral and plurilateral networks in Europe. The pandemic has revealed the need to pursue a more intense exchange with the partners with whom our economy is more integrated. For Italy this will involve the need to better structure and strengthen the strategic and essential relationship with France and Germany. But it will also be necessary to consolidate the collaboration with States with which we share a specific Mediterranean sensitivity and the sharing of problems such as environmental and migratory issues: Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus. We will also continue to work towards a more virtuous dialogue between the European Union and Turkey, NATO partner and ally.
Italy will endeavor to fuel dialogue mechanisms with the Russian Federation. We are following with concern what is happening in this and other countries where citizens' rights are often violated. We are also following with concern the rise in tensions in Asia around China.
Another challenge will be the negotiations on the new Pact for Migration and Asylum, in which we will pursue a decisive strengthening of the balance between the responsibility of the countries of first entry and effective solidarity. The construction of a European return policy for those not entitled to international protection will also be crucial, alongside full respect for the rights of refugees.
The advent of the new US Administration promises a change of method, more cooperative towards Europe and its traditional allies. I am confident that our relations and collaboration will only intensify.
From last December and until the end of 2021, Italy has held the Presidency of the G20 for the first time. The program, which will involve the entire government team, revolves around three pillars: People, Planet, Prosperity. Italy will have the responsibility of leading the Group towards the exit from the pandemic, and of relaunching green and sustainable growth for the benefit of all. It will be about rebuilding and better rebuilding.
Together with the United Kingdom - with which we have the parallel presidencies of the G7 and the G20 this year - we will focus on sustainability and the "green transition" in the perspective of the next Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP 26), with particular attention to involving actively the younger generations, through the “Youth4Climate” event.
President Draghi concluded
This is the third government in the legislature. There is nothing to suggest that it can do well without the convinced support of this Parliament. It is a support that does not rest on political alchemy but on the spirit of sacrifice with which women and men have faced the last year, on their vibrant desire to be reborn, to come back stronger and on the enthusiasm of young people who want a country capable of achieving their dreams. Today, unity is not an option, unity is a duty. But it is a duty guided by what I am sure unites us all: love for Italy.