Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks on the agreement just signed with the Sicily Region on cohesion funds. «It is a particularly significant and strategic agreement between the Italian government and the Sicilian Region, a great opportunity» says the Prime Minister during the signing of the Agreement with the Sicilian Region on cohesion funds. You then added: “No euro will be wasted as in the past.” Then a point on the Pnrr, whose plan envisaged by the government was strongly criticized by the opposition and in particular by the Democratic Party: “It would be crazy to change it, for the European Union we are at the top”.
Healthcare, Meloni: “This government has put in more than anyone else”
«We have allocated 700 million to healthcare. Despite what is often said, this is the government that in history has invested the most in terms of resources on healthcare and in terms of increasing the national healthcare fund” the prime minister then said.
The divide between North and South
The Prime Minister then pointed the finger at the historical gap that exists between the North and the South of the country. «Cohesion funds serve to combat the gap and disparities between territories, the most significant of the gaps between north and south is determined above all by infrastructural disparity. We could not have dealt with this matter without addressing the issue of infrastructure”, which is why “we have foreseen the establishment of an equalization fund”, which “provides for the obligation to allocate 40% of resources for infrastructure in the South”. Thus the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, during the ceremony for the signing of the agreement for development and cohesion between the government and the Sicilian Region at the Massimo theater in Palermo. «I have always contested the principle according to which the distribution of infrastructure spending was based on the population: in the South there is 34% of the population and therefore 34% of infrastructure spending goes – he said – But there is a problem: to the In the South there is depopulation and that depopulation is also and above all the result of the absence of infrastructure so, if we continued to link infrastructure spending to the population, we would objectively have a problem.”
The Democratic Party’s criticisms of the Pnrr
‘”During the examination of the latest budget law, the Democratic Party in the Chamber strongly and harshly contested the return of the linear cuts envisaged by the Meloni government but, while we denounced it, the right lowered its gaze. And today we find ourselves with the municipalities that will be forced to suffer cuts amounting to hundreds of millions and that will be affected, above all, by those local authorities that have received more resources from the Pnrr, and have spent them appropriately”. Thus Francesco Boccia, president of the senators of the Democratic Party, arriving in Rovigo for a meeting with the social partners as part of the electoral initiatives in view of the European elections of 8 and 9 June. «As regards the resources of the Pnrr, the government cannot claim the results of the tenders, that is only a mandatory administrative activity towards local authorities. The resources were provided by the EU against agreed programs and missions. The cuts made by the Government towards the municipalities for their contribution to public finances remain. Two completely different arguments, Pnrr and cuts, cannot be put together to justify or minimize the government’s action against the municipalities. It’s the usual game of the right: now they try to turn the tables, shifting the responsibility for this latest slap in the face to local authorities onto each other, but all the mayors, starting from the centre-right ones, know that they are lying shamelessly. The Pnrr has become President Meloni’s ATM, while ministers Fitto and Giorgetti continue to argue and deny each other.” «On the Pnrr they boast of results never achieved other than putting into practice a path started in the last legislature. The problem is how they now intend to manage the deficit and who their cuts will affect. But when we ask the majority for explanations, just as we did on the Def, we only hear silence. Either out of shame or perhaps because they are waiting for orders from the government on what to say. Instead of reducing inequalities, they use the Pnrr to cover linear cuts. It’s unacceptable.”
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