Foti: with Green deal there is a risk of deindustrialization of Italy

"Europe must be, not a prohibition machine, but a tool that actually promotes the growth of businesses. The fundamental error is that we are paying for a Green Deal policy that makes no sense: if we continue on this path we will have the deindustrialization of the country". With the risk of social tensions. This is what the Minister for European Affairs, the PNRR and Cohesion Policies, Tommaso Foti, said, speaking at the Forum in Masseria. "The automotive industry - he added - weighs on Europe and 13 million families draw sustenance from the sector, not to mention all the supply chains. If we continue to talk about the sex of angels, it will be very philosophically fascinating, but politically a failure".

" Cohesion operates over an average period of seven years. In terms of programming, even the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics stopped at five-year plans. If you go with a faster programming plan, you get better results." This was underlined by the Minister for European Affairs, the PNRR and Cohesion Policies, Tommaso Foti, speaking at the Forum in Masseria di Manduria. "We are talking - he continued - about the 2028-2034 programming period, which is a fairly decisive period as regards the possibility for Europe to recover the gap. In this last phase, with the programming envisaged by Fitto, cohesion resources can be allocated to other areas. For the regional part, it is necessary to acquire the adhesion of all the Regions individually. There is the problem that regional resources must be negotiated Region by Region . "

To build a house "two things are needed: clearing away a whole series of rules that suggest not building new houses. Then the real issue is that of urban regeneration, which cannot be accompanied by fiscal measures". The minister responds about the need to create an ad hoc ministry for this area. " I then think of the measure that vice president Fitto was thinking of, which was to tell the Regions: we have capitals that are all suffering, instead of using European resources for measures that are at the very least questionable, let's use them to fill the housing gap".

According to Ance Vice President Massimo Angelo Deldossi, present at the Forum, "to really impact energy costs and allow businesses and families to save significantly on bills, we must reduce energy consumption. The green home directive offers us the opportunity to cut consumption by at least 50%, but to achieve these goals, strong governance is needed, systematizing all the funds to support redevelopment that already exist: European, national, investment funds and private capital. This is the first point of the decalogue that Ance has developed for energy efficiency".