Draghi, Pnrr, curfew and more. Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start POCA SPERANZA DALL’INDIA
“I signed a new ordinance banning entry into Italy to those who have been in India in the last 14 days. Residents in Italy will be able to return with a tampon on departure and ‘arrival and with obligation of quarantine “. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, announces it on Fb.
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 25, 2021
“Our scientists are hard at work studying the new Indian variant. We can’t let our guard down,” Health Minister Roberto Speranza (Leu) writes on Facebook.
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 25, 2021 THE EXTRA RULES DECREES AND ORDINANCES
“At the restaurant until 10pm and no one will be fined,” said the Minister of Regional Affairs, Maria Stella Gelmini (Forza Italia), to the Messenger.
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 25, 2021 DRAGHI SHUTS UP URSULA
Draghi picks up the phone for the second time in two days and calls back the president of the EU Commission, von der Leyen: «I don’t think we need to provide further explanations, that’s enough. We need respect for Italy ». (Il Corriere della Sera)
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 25, 2021 COPRIFUOCO
CTS KNOWS NOTHING
Corriere della Sera: “The CTS has never spoken about curfew. It’s useful
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Agostino Miozzo, former CTS coordinator, replies: “The curfew is a limitation of freedom of movement adopted in many countries.” My “CTS has never expressed itself”.
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 25, 2021 THE ’68 ACCORDING TO BARBARA ALBERTI
«The rebellion is when you understand what you want to be and you would like them to let you become what you want in peace. I was happy to rebel (…) We were little braggart. 1968 was all about little braggart, in a tender sense ». (Barbara Alberti, 78 years old).
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 25, 2021 QUISQUILIE & PINZILLACCHERE
Travaglio cheers Ursula pic.twitter.com/FjVB2xqUEd
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 25, 2021
A year ago – day plus day minus – Borrelli (Civil Defense) struts indoors without a mask; Guerra (WHO) praised the government for anti-Covid policies and Ricciardi (Ministry of Health) defused Veneto for swabs. Not to forget.
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 23, 2021
TERRORISM, NOT JOURNALISM
“Crazy in the cities”. “Saturday of gatherings”. “The shopping streets are full”. “Beaches taken by storm”. “Crowded waterfront”. “Sold out in the parks”. “The diehards of the aperitif”. These are some of the titles I see in online magazines.
– Michele Arnese (@Michele_Arnese) April 24,
At a certain point in the afternoon Mario Draghi picks up the phone for the second time in two days, calls the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, does not raise his voice, but sends a message that closes an exhausting, rough negotiation, marked by distrust of the technical offices in Brussels: «I don’t think we need to provide further explanations, that’s enough. We need respect for Italy ».
The confrontation with Brussels on the latest version of the Recovery plan was marked by a series of requests on the reforms that will accompany the Plan “full of quibbles” and “of mistrust in the country’s ability” to implement them.
Throughout the day he coordinated the work of the Mef technicians and his economic staff subjected to the bombing of further explanations on the implementation reforms of the Recovery. There were also moments of real confrontation with Brussels: they asked for more details on the fight against illegal work, on the timing and contents of the justice reform, on the simplification of procedures, on competition and liberalization.
On this last point the Prime Minister had to intervene once again, with a diplomatic and at the same time very firm message: “You cannot ask everything immediately from a country with an economy on its knees”. The competition reform will be carried out, together with the others, in the Pnrr the times and contents of at least 15 between decree laws and delegated laws for the reform of the country in the coming months and years are indicated, complete with a time schedule.
The negotiation ends with the acceptance of the guarantees that Draghi personally offers. In the Plan prepared by the previous government there was only one page dedicated to the reforms to implement the Recovery, “today there are 40”, they put pen to paper at Palazzo Chigi. As if to say: the Commission appreciates the effort made by the Draghi government to rewrite the Plan, which “was very profound” compared to what it found itself in when it took office. It was also a race against time: tomorrow the Recovery will be presented to Parliament, then sent to Brussels in its latest version.
Sources of the Commission involved in the final negotiation somehow deny the mistrust towards our country, justify the great request for clarification addressed to the Italian government in this way: “In a week we had to do with Italy what we have with other European countries we did it in a month, but we applied the same rules ».
+++ EXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE BY FUBINI OF THE CORSERA ON THE COMPARISON OF THE PNRR BETWEEN CONTE AND DRAGHI:
It is worth asking how the Pnrr of the second is different – or similar – to the drafts of the first. Answer: There is a good deal of continuity in the skeleton and in most designs, while a few notable discontinuities stand out. The same officials wrote the two PNRRs, but the change of season is felt. How effective it will be will, however, depend on the reform path in the coming months and years.
Difference of the new plan: there are more additional investments, compared to those that Italy had already planned before. In Conte’s plan they were worth about 120 billion. In Draghi’s plan, on the other hand, about 166 billion euro are worth, of which 31 are located in a “complementary fund” of all Italian (non-European) resources launched essentially to finance various projects presented by the ministries that have not managed to enter the Recovery. A seasoned protagonist of these years compares the complementary fund “to the computer bin: there are items waiting to be eliminated”. But, even if it happens in part, Draghi’s new investments exceed those of Conte.
The six major missions of Recovery remain the same or almost, from digital to “inclusion and cohesion” and so almost all the 16 components. Clearly the new government built on the work of the old. But there is a greater level of detail – also recognized by the EU Commission – and important deviations are noted, in particular in the work of ministers Roberto Cingolani (Ecological transition) and Vittorio Colao (Innovation and digital). Not just because the bulk of the additional investment increases – about twenty billion – go into their projects. The digital area alone, from broadband to cybersecurity, goes from six to 13 billion. But in reality the green and technological areas also change in terms of merit.
Colao has imposed a novelty in one of the most delicate matches: in the ultra-broadband, we go from a single national competition with a single winning company to various competitions (perhaps between ten and 15) for the different territories. And the approach also followed in the United States. It allows more competition, the formation of different consortia, more precise estimates on the feasibility and circumvents the problem of a blocking of the contract throughout the country in the event of disputes. There is also a lot more emphasis on space industry projects.
Cingolani also has a large impact on the sums: the portfolio of “green” investments goes from 31% to 38% of the total, also because previously it was insufficient for Brussels. There are also some changes on the merits. The budget for floating off-shore solar parks is reduced from four to 0.5 billion, to strengthen a project that should favor rural repopulation and greater creation of places: from “agri-voltaic” (solar panels on land agricultural), digitalization of parks, self-consumption on farms.
A weak point of Draghi’s plans compared to Conte and yet the entry of many micro-projects that are sometimes questionable. There is a 100 million “hub for digital tourism” and there are 300 million for a public fund for start-ups which has already been well financed for some time.
