Q&A Confindustria - government on the infrastructuring of Italy



Q&A today between the president of Confindustria, Emma Marcegaglia, and the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Altero Matteoli. In its participation to the assembly of the confederation of the manufacturers held to Rome, manifesting the disappointment of the Confederation for the action of the government, Emma Marcegaglia has asked the executive participations more incisors above all on infrastructures and the state treasury. "The cuts carried out on the investments in infrastructures - it has explained - have been heavy. For same admission of the government, than in its official documents it writes that the investments publics come down from 38 billion 2009 to the 32 of 2010 and to the 27 of 2012. From 2.5% of the GDP to 1.6%: a level much low does not have in the last few decades equal and it does not afford us to overwhelm enormous the gap infrastructural from which the Country it suffers".

"Also when the works are financed - it has continued the president of Confindustria - it is not gone ahead. It is a true scandal that depresses the increase and removes competitiveness. If not there are the public funds, we at least try to involve the private ones with the project financing, establishing clear rules, sure times, limits to impugnative and resources".

Expressing surprised for the affirmations of Emma Marcegaglia, the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports has emphasized that "in the past couple of years they are invested in infrastructures 13,4 billion euros of private resources". "He surprises - he has added Altero Matteoli - that Emma Marcegaglia in its relation has not considered than the government is successful to involve the private ones, through the project financing, in order to infrastructure the Country and than, in normative terms, it is made in order to simplify and in order to attract private investments in the field".

"It also surprises - it has concluded the minister - than the president of Confindustria asserts that the works do not go ahead. In last the three years remarkable progresses have been recorded as several times are confirmed by Comforts and Reeds. It is true instead that often the works do not set off or they are blocked for the iterated and insistent resources of the same enterprises that participate to the public contests. It can be made better and than more, of we are aware. But to assert that it has been made nothing or little is misleading and not answering to the true one".