The President of the Italian Council Mario Draghi, to pass the exam in Brussels he had to call the president of the EU Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen for a discussion on the Italian PNNR. After hours of negotiations between the majority forces, the Council finally shored up the plan with some indispensable pillars such as female and youth employment.
The plan that counts 221,5 billion was approved in the Commission and next week will be presented in Parliament and in the Unified Conference. The decree law on the governance of the Plan is awaited. The hours that preceded the approval of the Plan were really hectic on issues such as the super-bonus and pensions, almost unanimously they asked for an extension to 2023. Extension, writes the Sole24Ore, which does not enter the Recovery, where it would have had to recover over 10 billion from other projects and overcome EU objections, but that was put into the program of the next budget law.
Among the most important reforms there is that of revenue authorities e competition. The interventions are based on the four axes. The horizontal reforms, Pa and Giustizia called to improve the economic environment of the country, the enabling reforms for the implementation of the Plan, which concern simplifications and competition, sectoral ones, such as the authorizations of projects on renewable sources and those of accompaniment, which affect taxation and social safety nets.
On the tax side, the greatest tensions between Rome and Brussels. The EU has asked for more precise commitments in terms of timing and governance of the reform. Among the points under discussion is the role of the commission of experts which will have to coordinate the implementation of the Plan discussed in Parliament, corroborated by the fact-finding survey of the two Finance committees.
Competition and procurement. On competition, the first drafts did not deal with the Bolkestein directive (beach and street concessions), but instead dealt with hydroelectric concessions to be brought back to the state after being “regionalised” two years ago. This argument caused the League's stomach ache.
Tenders, public administration purchases and the fight against undeclared work. On investments, the government underlines the greater impact on GDP envisaged by the Plan (+ 3,6% in 2026 against + 3% in the Conte version), and explains that it has pushed on measures for the ecological transition, which are worth 38% of the budget. and therefore exceed the 37% target set by the commission, as opposed to what happened at 31% of the Conte version.
'Sindustry the renewal of the Transition 4.0 incentives stands out, with approximately 18,5 billion. Nearly 1 billion goes to the Space Economy with the aim of increasing the number of employees by 20%. For the intervention of 1,8 billion. For the job market, the draft provides for the introduction of the legal minimum wage for workers not covered by national collective bargaining. Much attention will be paid tofemale entrepreneurship and the definition of a national gender equality certification system (400 million) with incentives for companies that adopt targeted policies. For the justice there is the temporary hiring of about 1.600 young graduates, 750 specialized and 3.000 graduates to support the judicial offices and 16.500 graduates for the staff of the Trial Office.