To restart, you don’t need a Recovery Fund or Mes, but federalism, self-government and business

16 October 20204 years ago babelfish

In the midst of the second wave of the pandemic, we realize that Contiana Italy is not the “model” they told us about and that things could have been done better. But there is one thing that leaves you astonished and concerns the future of our country. You will surely have noticed how to every question about the problems that Italy brings with it, alas, for years, the response of the Prime Minister and his ministers is the following: "We will do it with the money of the Recovery Fund ". Having said that the disbursement of the RF is still in doubt – and that hopefully we will receive 6 per cent of the total available to us in the spring of 2021 – it leaves us baffled to see a large G7 country being in a position to beg for funds in Brussels to keep yourself alive. Unfortunately, we remember those populations struck by wars and calamities who await the arrival of the Marines by helicopter like the Messiah to launch foodstuffs.

Of course, the money of the RF can be useful, but it is from us Italians that the relaunch must start. We all know that in our country there is waste, inequality and injustices that cause scandal to cry out. The spending review has stopped. Worse, in the hands of the Deputy Minister Grillino Castelli. The economy too, severely hit by Covid-19 – and the idea that in Italy a safe and well-paid job in the public is better than having to fight against bureaucracy and a state that is an enemy of free enterprise has now widely spread.

Beyond the empty Covid rhetoric as "an opportunity for relaunch" (sic), the time has really come to reform this country and provide a clear political and institutional framework to citizens and investors. The same 5 Stars, happy to have limited representation with the victory of the "Yes" in the referendum last September on the cut of the parliamentarians, spoke of a season of reforms, even if I doubt they are the ones that Italy would really have need.

The crisis in the country was born with the crisis of its intermediate bodies, the so-called "small homelands" mentioned by Robert Nisbet, and of its economy, screwed on itself and the victim of a sensational parastatalism of return. This is why a state that wants to define itself as truly liberal in the classical sense can no longer postpone federal reform and the broader decentralization from Rome, implementing the self-government that has made the fortune of all the best governed states in the world. In the electoral program of the Lega and the center-right for the 2018 elections, the federal reform was there, and was considered one of the pillars of the program.

Given that the federalist culture of the yellow-red-pink government is latent, one could still act by granting greater autonomy to local authorities. The Veneto and Lombardy have now expressed their intention in this sense almost three years ago, and Liguria and two regions governed by the left, Campania and Emilia-Romagna have also expressed the same will. Yet, faced with this strong push from the territories – which in Veneto almost assumes the connotation of a plebiscite – the government continues to send the ball back to the stands, like the worst Riccardo Ferri.

Minister Boccia formulates elaborate super-cazzole, stating that "we need a constitutional framework" so that autonomy does not translate into a secession of the rich. The constitutional framework actually exists, Title V of our fundamental law – and, in particular, the third paragraph of Article 116 – reformed by the center-left in 2001. It is worth remembering to Boccia, and to the many pentastellati that they judge the autonomy of the regions as a misfortune, that the 2017 referendums in Lombardy and Veneto followed the constitutional dictates and the laws of the Republic, and were the result of the agreement between the regions and the state, represented by the Interior Ministry and the prefectures. The text of the Lombard question also specified that the request for greater autonomy fell "within the framework of national unity".

Unfortunately, the Covid-19 crisis was the pretext to re-centralize power by the government, accusing the regions of all the shortcomings of an elephantine and inefficient state apparatus. We no longer talk about federalism and autonomy, even if the recent electoral round of the administrative offices sent the opposite message: the governors of the regions that have best managed the pandemic have been rewarded by the voters, demonstrating that the positive judgment towards those who actually face the daily problems of citizens closely gives benefits then also politically. To restart Italy, therefore, it is not necessary to go to Brussels with a hat in hand, nor to access the Mes (especially when we are able to obtain 7.5 billion euros a day from the placement of our government bonds): we need a leaner state , more business friendly and who does not see coronavirus as the ally to get their hands on companies in difficulty. The state has become an ice cream maker ( Sammontana ) and delicatessen ( Ferrarini ) in recent months: sectors that are anything but strategic. Other than Golden Share ! If they go on like this we risk having state drinks as well. Who knows what they think at the Farnesina …

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