What prevents the maritime-port and logistics industry Italian to provide the nation with its full potential of boost to economic growth? What is the ball at the foot That the sector drags on in spite of itself? Surveys and surveys carried out In recent decades they have unanimously identified bureaucracy the dead weight that slows down this sector but also almost all of the other segments of the national economy. An evil, that represented by the rigidity and slowness of the apparatus that administers, regulates and controls the production system and that of services, which seems impossible to eradicate.

No central or local government dreams of denying the role harmful that it has on the lives of businesses and citizens, to whom Every political movement promises initiatives to relieve them of this. burden. Commitment that always translates into new rules that add to the previous ones, but do not cancel them, and in new bodies responsible for combating bureaucracy by rationalising procedures, which are added to the previous ones. No policy is made Burden of demanding that the rules already in force, those in to reduce bureaucracy, are respected and that the structures already Operationalists who could do so. None Politics engages in an anonymous and obscure task, which moreover arouses the complaints of those who perceive it as a threat to their interests.

So always new bodies created by politics, such as that envisaged by Deputy Minister Edoardo Rixi who announced a Reform for the port sector that would see the creation of a body along the lines of the Spanish public body Puertos del Estado which is responsible for implementing the port policy of the Madrid government. A reform, that of Rixi, of which little is known or nothing. Why then talk about it, not knowing its contents, without waiting for them to be disclosed? Because, from that little As we know, it seems to be a reform intended to give the port sector a New counter that will join the many to turn to.

In addition to Puertos del Estado, Rixi said that another reference is the National Agency for Flight Assistance (ENAV), and this makes it even more feared that the deputy minister of Transport does not know what the task and functions are of ENAV, or that wants to open another branch at which, for example, to contact for questions relevant to control of maritime traffic which are the responsibility of the Corps of Port Authorities - Coast Guard.

Assign new tasks to a new organism by wading well from subtracting them from one that is already there, all with the purpose of not cracking that corporate spirit of which it is permeated Italian society and that nothing suggests that The reform may scratch.

What's better than yet another organism that looks like bring a puff of novelty. A wind of change, not Gattopardesco intended to ensure that everything remains as before, but on the contrary, it is capable of aggravating bureaucracy by overlapping competences, as has already happened with the government in office which established a Minister for Civil Protection and Policies of the sea that has been celebrated by the industry Maritime, happy as it is, as long as we talk about the sea. A New dicastery whose competences overlap with those of the Ministries of Infrastructure and Transport and Environment and Energy Security and others.

It is that debureaucratization, of which the Italians so so much they feel the need, to be implemented according to that Corporate spirit that pervades Italians so much and that feeds the bureaucracy that so much the people complain about Italian. A cat biting its own tail. That's how you create problems perceived as eternal and retained inherent in the communities that are afflicted by it.

It is a vicious circle that makes everyone happy: the unions because it has been promised that work is defended, It does not matter if this safeguard prevents growth employment and in the long run threatens the little work there is, and companies because what they perceive is that News do not affect what little companies can do do, perhaps not putting them in competition with others than in Italy and Abroad they enjoy greater protection and lower costs.

But what is happy is above all the policy that proposes and maybe imposes these innovations that bring its name, which finally feels like its own creature and which allow you to find a place for his entourage and his supporters, broadening their electoral base and their Circle of power. And above all, it avoids them from working to make function those organs, those mechanisms that already have skills, tasks and functions to manage what the new creature is called to manage, and to do so they should Remove privileges and claim productivity and engagement, all things that in a moment make you lose consensus, starting from that who reluctantly granted him the same party colleagues, and of government.

It is a process that has a paradoxical effect. It is A perverse spiral. This vicious circle is very It is likely to be repeated, but it is not obvious. These lines are An appeal for this not to happen. So that Let no one tell us that he who is the cause of his pain weeps if same.

Bruno Bellio