ROME (ITALPRESS) – “I am confident that we can do better than the forecast. I continue to believe that +1 percent is within reach.” Thus the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, speaking at the Confindustria assembly assuring how Italy can “still amaze, can still show the world what it is worth, can still leave everyone speechless. For too many years we have been content to chase others,” she continued, “the time has come for us to chase ourselves and we can do it above all if we work at it together if we roll up our sleeves together, if we believe a little more in ourselves, if we are able to value a little more the beautiful things of this nation instead of always and only valuing what goes wrong. If we do not believe it ourselves, we cannot convince others either. I believe and I see an Italy that is esteemed, loved and sought after in the world, I know I have it behind my back and I am ready to open all the doors that need to be opened, but then we have to believe in it together and we have to walk hand in hand.” The premier, in her first speech to the assembly of industrialists, shows appreciation for President Orsini’s report, “I share many of the insights and proposals it contains and the scenario analysis on the risks that the Italian and European economy runs if the trends are not decisively reversed. The doors of this government will always be open to those who want to offer concrete proposals and solutions to the problems we have. I propose that we meet now, there is so much work to be done on the budget law and whatnot, let’s try to organize as soon as possible. We, like everyone else, are interested in doing our job well, we are interested in doing well the task that the Italians have entrusted to us, and we want to do it well together with you.” And it is on the upcoming budget law that much of Meloni’s speech focuses. “There is an issue of responsibility on resource management and with a new Stability Pact that we have to deal with. We are ready for a very concrete confrontation on the substance, but I want to be clear, we want to follow the same approach that we have followed so far: the budget law inspired by common sense and seriousness, and we will concentrate the not so many resources available to the purchasing power of families, to businesses that hire. Not only on the budget law I am ready for confrontation, but I am also ready for confrontation on the issue of bureaucracy.” In the maneuver, he assures, “there will be no bonuses to renovate second and third homes, there will be no citizenship income for those who can work, all of this will not be there because that season is definitely closed. Saying enough to this habit of throwing money out the window to get easy consensuses, this is the advantage of those who have a legislature to pursue a strategy. This is new for Italy because we have paid for government instability.” Then businesses. “The Italian one is a productive fabric based on profit but also on the ability to create social value, attentive to the needs of families, workers, to look at the development of the nation at 360 degrees. I think we should thank Italian business and Confindustria, thank you for what businesses have done in terms of building social values. We supported investments so that Italy would be more attractive,” he continued, “we gave a clear message that the state would not bother those who wanted to do but would walk alongside. We said no’s when no’s had to be said because citizens’ money should not be thrown out the window. In difficult years, businesses have shown in difficulty the resilience of our production system, the ability to stand up, the ability that has often been underestimated. Let me tell you, from someone who has often been underestimated, that there comes a time for everyone when it no longer matters what you assume but what people value matters. Crises often hide opportunities and you have shown how Italy was more tenacious than others, this has made us all more aware and that awareness allows the government to look at the economic picture with more optimism.” In the aftermath of the presentation of the new European Commission, the premier reiterates her satisfaction with the appointment of Raffaele Fitto, who “will be one of the next executive vice presidents with a portfolio that, between Cohesion Funds and Pnrr, cubes over a thousand billion. I think this offers the dimension of Italy’s weight in the EU, but I also think it is a recognition of the work that Italy has done on Cohesion Funds and Pnrr, there were several nations that were interested in how we were working. Fitto’s is, I think, an achievement that should make us all proud,” an achievement “to be brought home with everyone’s contribution because Fitto is the Italian commissioner and not a government commissioner.” And still on European policies, he stresses how “accompanying the productive fabric in the challenge of ecological transition cannot mean dismantling entire sectors. The farewell to the endothermic engine to 2035 is one of the most obvious examples of this self-destructive approach.” Finally, reforms and artificial intelligence. We initiated the reforms because “I would not be at peace with my conscience if I did not get to the bottom of the structural problems we have been dragging on for years. We will do what needs to be done and move forward despite the fact that the oppositions prefer to keep everything as it is, but in the end the Italians will decide. I don’t think the development of Artificial Intelligence can or should be held back, but we would be making a huge mistake if we didn’t govern it because the impression I have is that sometimes with the fast advent of new technologies we immediately take the advantages, but we are not in time to assess the risks and the risks are many,” he concludes.
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Meloni confident about growth, “Italy can still amaze”
