Government ready to support economy if it slows down
“The government remains ready to support the economy – said the premier – in the event of a slowdown, the main challenge remains to increase the growth rate in the long term and solve the structural weaknesses starting from inequalities”. The premier stressed that the vaccination campaign was essential to revive the economy: “growth at the end of the year will settle, as mentioned, over 6% after a drop of almost 9% last year”, explained Draghi. “We expect – he said – that the ratio between public debt and gross domestic product will drop already this year”.
I have the needs of the country in mind, I use my experiences to understand priorities
“I don’t have a picture in mind, I have the country’s needs in mind, I’ve had a life full of experiences and information, I try to use them to understand priorities, helped by EU measures,” said Mario Draghi, replying to a journalist which asks him for a parallelism between government action and artistic currents, from the Renaissance to Futurism. “Art – concluded Draghi – I like everything, I have no preferences”.
The super bonus has also created distortions and fraud
Responding to a question on the superbonus, the premier said that “it is a measure that has been very beneficial, but has created distortions and for this reason the government was reluctant to extend it,” premier Mario Draghi underlined at a press conference. And he explained that then “Parliament used the funds for parliamentary action that could also go in other directions, to extend it. But why didn’t the government want to? Due to the distortions, with the extraordinary increase in the prices of components to do the renovations, the result is that today an energy efficiency unit costs much more than before. The other aspect is that it has encouraged a lot of fraud ». And he announced that just this morning the Revenue Agency reported to him that it had blocked 4 billion of credits given as transferable for the superbonus.
Vaccination obligation never excluded
Answering the questions, the prime minister stressed that “the vaccination obligation has never been excluded”. And he recalled that “vaccines remain the best defense tool against the virus,” said Prime Minister Mario Draghi at the press conference at the end of the year. “The arrival of the Omicron variant – underlined the premier – which they say is more contagious has opened a new phase, tomorrow there will be a control room to decide what to do on the basis of the data”. Always answering a question, he recalled that “the state of emergency is not an act of resignation, but of necessity”.
Vaccination of children is also essential at school
On the subject of school, “precautions must be taken, the first thing to do is a screening in the institutes, and on this Son he got to work, then everyone needs to be tested and vaccinated, and even children today”, said Draghi. answering questions from reporters. “All this is necessary to defend the normality reached.”