“When we built the governance of the Plan, we decided to involve a very broad and articulated representation of the Italian System in the Control Room”
Not “a list of good intentions”, but “a concrete plan” of “feasible objectives” with a “well-defined timetable”. Giorgia Meloni she came back to talk about Mattei Plan in his video message to the Confcommercio initiative on the contribution that the private sector can give to its implementation. A “challenge” that of the new relationship with Africa in which the prime minister reiterated the importance of the role of the “Italian system as a whole”, which “understood how strategic this initiative is for our future and for that of our African ‘next door’”.
THE VIDEO WITH THE WORDS OF GIORGIA MELONI
“I am very happy that the productive and economic fabric of this nation has understood, from the beginning, the importance and strategic nature of the challenge that the Government launched with the Mattei Plan initiative”, said the Prime Minister, underlining that “this is a very precious element because, if the Mattei Plan is a success and truly manages to build that new model of cooperation and development with the African Nations that we have in mind, much will depend on the contribution of our companies, on the possibility of putting their energies and their concreteness at the service of this initiative”. “Because – continued Meloni – what distinguishes the Mattei Plan from all the other initiatives of the past is precisely its concreteness. We have not written a list of good intentions, of declarations of principle. We have written a plan of feasible, achievable objectives, accompanied by a well-defined timetable.”
This is a challenge for which, precisely because of its vocation for concreteness, the government was immediately clear about the need to involve the realities that will contribute to transforming commitments into concrete projects. “This is why when we built the governance of the Plan, we decided to involve in Control Room a very broad and articulated representation of the Italian system”, recalled Meloni, thanking Confcommercio for the “contribution and proposals” made.
“Concreteness is the distinctive feature of the Mattei Plan, which we have divided into six lines of intervention, which are education and training, health, agriculture, water, energy and infrastructure, and which is finding its first realization with various pilot projects starting from nine Nations: Algeria, Congo, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Tunisia”, the prime minister then summarized, also recalling the work in the direction of pragmatism carried out at the G7, also involving entities such as the African Development Bank and the World Bank and integrating the Mattei Plan into an international strategy together with the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment and the synergies built by Italy with other partners, including the USA.
“We have worked a lot in recent months – Meloni then recalled – also to create a framework in which the public sector and the private sector could work together, even in areas of Africa where Italy is not traditionally present. And we are committed to further supporting the internationalization of our companies, also reserving a portion of the Simest Fund for those who invest in Africa, in particular our small and medium-sized businesseswith financing that can also be used for productive investments towards the Continent”.
“For too long – the Prime Minister warned – Africa has been a land, let’s say, misunderstood, exploited, often looked down upon. Africa is, however, from our point of view, a continent that can surprise, if put in a position to exploit what is extraordinary it possesses and compete on equal terms. We have the task of collaborating with African nations, and building their economic and production systems together with them., increasingly dynamic and enterprising, new opportunities for shared development. A cooperation as equals that must bring a positive balance for all, to grow together, without charitable or paternalistic approaches. And we intend to do this not with proclamations, but with facts, transforming our intentions into infrastructure, concrete projects and jobs.” “We have a lot of work to do, and I am sure that the Government can always count on your contribution. And on the contribution of the Italian system as a whole, which has grasped – concluded Meloni – how strategic this initiative is for our future and for that of our African ‘next door'”
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