From the north half of GDP, taxes, employment and investments

One cannot fail to highlight the real risk that the deep North ends up on the margins of the action of the new Conte Government. More precisely, the six regions currently chaired by center-right governors (Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia), risk not having much say in the important decisions that will be taken by the new executive: and this despite expressing an extremely significant economic and employment weight for the stability and growth of the country. Obviously, any judgment is premature. What will matter is the concrete measures that the Giallorossi government will take in the coming months. To say it is the CGIA of Mestre.

"According to the numbers - begins the coordinator of the Paolo Zabeo Research Department - almost half of the GDP, the tax revenue, the employees in private companies and the total investments of the country is generated by these six regions of the deep North. Besides that, I remember that almost the 60 percent of Italian exports is made in these territories that, by now, feel more in tune with and integrated with Bavaria or Frankfurt than with Rome ”.

The risk that the distances between the most productive area of ​​the country and the Roman palaces increase is very real. However, this does not mean that the North is politically a monolith prerogative of the League and the center-right. Secretary Renato Mason states:

"Important cities such as Turin, Milan, Brescia, Bergamo and Padua, for example, are led by pentastellati or center-left mayors. In the last European elections, moreover, the political forces that support the new Conte government have obtained 36 per cent of the votes both in the Northwest and in the Northeast: a non-negligible result, even if much lower than the consensus obtained by the League. However, the problem is there and it is obvious; governing the country with the opposition North will not be easy ”.

In addition to tax cuts and a recovery in infrastructure investments, the North is also paying particular attention to the issue of differentiated autonomy. From the first statements made by the new Minister for Regional Affairs, Francesco Boccia, an unexpected opening of credit emerges: the hope is that the misunderstandings exploded in recent months between a part of the previous executive and the Governors of Lombardy will be definitively thrown behind them and Veneto.

• The economic and employment dimension

Analyzing the latest available data, it emerges that the six regions of the North taken into consideration produce altogether little more than 721 billions of euros of added value (ie the GDP), equal to 46,6 per cent of the national total. Private companies, on the other hand, are just under 2 million (38,1 per cent of the total in Italy) and occupy just over 8 million workers (48 per cent of the total). Exports amount to almost 336 billion (58,2 per cent of the total) and gross fixed investments made amounted to just over 142 billion (49 per cent of the national figure). Finally, in these 6 regions, there are just over 23 million inhabitants, equal to 38,4 per cent of the national total.

• Taxes and infrastructure

From the territories of the North the treasury draws over 256 billions of euros (equal to 46,1 per cent of the total) and in these 6 regions there are over 6 thousand km of railway network (36,7 per cent of the total), almost 3 thousand km of network motorways (42,2 per cent of the national figure) and through the TIRs little more than 460 pass through these roads millions of tons of goods per year (53,4 per cent of the figure in Italy). In addition to tangible infrastructures, intangible assets are also strategically important, with the North still lagging behind in terms of ultra-broadband. If in Italy the real estate units reached by ultra-fast fiber are equal to 58 per cent, in Trentino Alto Adige the coverage is of 28,2 per cent, in Friuli Venezia Giulia of 45,6 per cent and in Veneto of 48,6 per cent. Only Lombardy and Liguria have coverage incidences higher than the national average: 59,5 and 74,9 per cent respectively.

From the north half of GDP, taxes, employment and investments

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