Pros and cons of Giorgia Meloni’s economic program

The recognition that wealth is created by businesses is good news. But on the safeguard clause of the national interest, which hinders the concessions of public infrastructures to private individuals, we are not there

I begin with some things that I found convincing in Giorgia Meloni’s speech. The first is the strong emphasis on the importance of business and freedom of enterprise. “Wealth is created by companies with their workers, not the state by edict or decree“. Goodbye, good! We can only hope that words will be followed by deeds. We will see. I was convinced by the acute awareness of the difficulty of the current economic situation and the underlining that the minus sign expected for GDP growth in 2023 is one of the worst in Europe and that it is not an isolated situation because Italy has not grown since. twenty years. “In the last twenty years, Italy has grown by 4 percent overall, while France and Germany by more than 20 percent“. Doubly good! Because this means that there are not many margins to distribute bonuses with public money and, above all, because two important arguments are inserted here: the openness to investments of foreign companies in Italy and the challenge of the NRP as an opportunity to tackle structural problems that prevent Italy from growing.