SURE was the seed that allowed the germination of the most ambitious plan that has ever been conceived so far after the Marshall Plan
By Daniela Rondinelli, M5S European Deputy
Just a year has passed since the heated political debate, football style: MES “yes”, MES “no”.
On that occasion, the short-sighted sovereign ideology of the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, portrayed the European Union as “a stepmother ready to strangle Italy”, with a hammering social campaign on the unfounded risk of joining the new European instrument of temporary support to mitigate the risks of unemployment in emergency (SURE).
Then as today, Salvini was forced to clash with Giancarlo Giorgetti, moderate soul of the League and of a center-right in which even with Meloni it is preferred to dialogue with the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbàn and the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki for the construction of a European sovereign axis contemptuous towards the Union and above all towards the renewal process begun with the work of the Conference on the Future of Europe.
SURE it proved to be a certainty safeguarding the future of millions of workers and companies. The European Commission in the report “A year of SURE” has published incontrovertible data.
One in four European workers has benefited from SURE. A huge number of 31 million employed, of which 22.5 million are employees and 8.5 million are self-employed.
With this tool, we have managed to protect 1.5 million jobs and supported 2.5 million companies, mostly small and medium-sized businesses.
We have effectively averted an economic and social collapse that months of long restrictions and limitations could have caused the country and the European Union.
Just Italy, which has received in total € 27.4 billion of subsidized loans from the European Commission, has managed to obtain a substantial saving of public resources, currently equal to about 4 billion euros in interest, but also to avoid a fratricidal fight with other Member States to place new public debt securities on the market that would only have increased the spread and interest rates.
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