ITALY CE THE CAN 'DO
structural reforms, liberalization and competition, open 7 days for a company, the node of the lowest wages in Europe Italy ce can do it. E 'can still reverse course and in relation to concrete signs of decline, both in relation to the rhetoric of "inevitable decline". The Italian crisis is real and profound, but all too often is described as inevitable and irreversible. Not so.
course we need to turn the page. An old party system, yet still too powerful and expensive, nailing the country and the Italian political factions in fights, clashes of supporters: and more than a decade, majorities too timid compared to the great needs for change, are opposed to dedicated opposition to undermine and demonize groped governments, but unable to challenge them on the ground of strong counter-reform. So, you multiply the opportunities and the phenomena of sterile conflict, which make the game more illiberal and conservative members of the two sides, as well as the thousands lobby working to protect their privileges, while preventing those who nurture democracies to make more balance the social fabric and help the prevalence inside and outside the poles more, liberal and reformist forces.
For this, we need a shock therapy, and must start afresh from a new attention to social issues of our time. They serve no more caps but a more concrete
offer chances to the people of "unsecured" need a real "status of the outsider", how many (consumers, young people, risk and innovation of entrepreneurs, women, workers private, unemployed, underemployed, retired social minimum, immigrants) are and remain outside the fort of the guarantees and privileges. The Italy of the "outsider", the "unsecured" in fact no protection, is now faceless and voiceless, silenced before that silent.
Precondition, no doubt, is represented by fiscal consolidation. We express this confidence in and support the work of the Ministry of Economy. But at the same time, we believe that there are three other priorities incardinate and face.
1. The Italian economy will not start until it is freed from the thousand constraints that block competition and allow the accumulation of pensions paid by outsiders. Should take the path towards liberalization: this must be the priority of economic policy.
In this sense, we propose some concrete and urgent intervention possibilities, which should accompanied by a renewed effort and significant investment of enterprises (supported in this by a strong political initiative at national and local) innovation process and product, as a condition for the effective ability to attract new resources and compete internationally.
a. The competition and liberalization in the field of public utilities, including at local level, in a proper division of roles between public and private, is a top priority for the country. As pointed out by the Governor of the Bank of Italy, the competition is by definition an agent of social justice and overcoming the monopolistic and oligopolistic rents, relatively lower costs of services is a key factor in improving living conditions in the first place of the poorest sections of the population.
b. We need concrete actions in terms of "reform without cost: for example, a successful professional (to help reopen a closed society, marked by the weight of lobbies and corporations), and the abolition of the legal value of university degree ( to ensure a positive shock in the sign of the competition, the invitation to young people to bet on themselves than on the possession of a piece of paper).
c. Should be reduced to 7 days maximum time necessary for the opening of a new company, save time and characteristics of the administrative, or other generalized criteria implied consent and self-labeling in the meantime, the company opens and processing, and then to ensure the completion of the bureaucratic.
2. You can still postpone the opening of the debate on structural reforms in Italy without too long, and always deferred and delayed. E 'must now, however, and early in the term, it puts his hand to the issue of health care, civil service and pensions, as an aging average effective retirement age in a new alliance between fathers and sons, and with acts of generosity the first against second. But beware, the cuts are not alone. Financial measures are not accompanied by a change in the rules are ephemeral: we need to change the rules that underpin the growth of public spending.
3. In terms of the labor market, should be distributed by the White Book of Marco Biagi. Sure, there may be only the workers to take the risks of flexibility, but get rid of Law 30 would be a grave mistake. It should instead re-balanced and complete, and precisely in the direction of the Report Biagi, and then rewriting the system of social safety nets, which often ended in this country have to protect too few (out of 100 people losing their jobs, in Italy, only 17 have some form of protection). That's why we should-but-think the English model, with an unemployment benefit, and a mechanism of "welfare to work."
same time, it should be addressing the question of Italian wages, remains among the lowest in Europe. And 'necessary and possible, reducing taxes for five years, wage increases, and provide for a reform of the contracts that bind the variable portion of wages to productivity and results. The sacrifices can not be supported by a single party.
It takes more courage. And a courageous policy of reform and modernization would have the double feature to put the country on the move-together-and to help the weak.
Tony Blair said: "Every time I introduced a reform, I only regret that I have not pushed even further." We urge the Government, Parliament, political and social forces to take this quote as a warning and as a compass. ____________
appeal filed by Capezzone
(Chairman of the productive activities of the Chamber)
these are the names of some of the early signatories:
- Alberto Alesina, Economics, Harvard University
- Giuliano Da Empoli , Director of "Zero"
- Gian Maria Fara , President Eurispes
- Natale Forlani, CEO of "Italy Lavoro"
- Oscar Giannino, Deputy Director of "Business News"
- Francesco Giavazzi , Economics, Bocconi University in Milan
- Massimo Lo Cicero, Development Economics, University of Rome La Wisdom
- Pio Marconi, Sociology of Law, University of Rome La Sapienza
- Alberto Mingardi, Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni
- Fiorella Padoa Schioppa Kostoris , Economics, University of Rome La Sapienza
- Fabio Pammolli , Director of the Institutions Markets Technologies "
- Gaetano Romano, President National Association of Practitioners and Lawyers
- Rubbettino Florindo, Editor
- Luca Solari, Director of the Interdepartmental Centre for Research Work, Welfare & Training, University of Milan
- Carlo Stagnaro, Director Dept of Ecology market "Istituto Bruno Leoni
- According Tarditi, Economics, University of Siena
- Chicco Testa, former Chairman of Enel