editorial
twelve o’clock, April 18, 2021 – 11:36 am
The need for planning after Covid
of Michele Cozzi
Still no idea for the 2021 tourist season
The months pass and the perception of Puglia is becoming more and more a prisoner of its darkest hour. While much of the country prepares to change color, loosening the restrictions on civil and economic freedoms, and Prime Minister Draghi announces a partial reopening, according to a reasoned risk, from April 26, the region retains its red footprint. A red of shame and anger. Why not only delays in the management of the emergency they made Puglia end up in the international press, but because there is no idea of the aftermath.
In Campania, the pyrotechnician De Luca, with perhaps questionable sorties, indicates a direction, an idea of the future, promises a vaccination campaign, after over eighty and fragile, by economic categories to save tourism and promotes the hypothesis of covid-free islands . With us in Puglia it seems the year zero. What will next summer be like? What tools will be put in place to ensure compliance with the rules, in a context of relaunch?
Last summer he spent in the cavalry, because there were elections and goodnight to the bucket. But in recent weeks, are we thinking about a minimum of tourism policy? I don’t just stop the tourism. A few days ago the state re-entered the governance of the iron and steel industry of Taranto. The choice is now there, confirming how one of the effects of the pandemic is the increasingly pervasive role of the state in the economy. It is now necessary to stop the clock and understand the responses that the Region intends to give to Taranto. That not only the steel industry. And then, the fundamental game of the Recovery plan. A few days ago, Minister Carfagna promised that the funds for the South will be at least 40%. The effectiveness of the territories in the preparation of plans and management of funds will be a sort of prerequisite for obtaining even more resources than in the North. a competitive logic, which represents a stimulus, but also a challenge.
The hope that the Apulian plans do not end with projects, dusty and forgotten in old drawers, but that take into account the new assets: eco-sustainable transport, ecological transition of some productive sectors, the digital revolution, policies for young people, more efficiency of the public administration. And other chapters could be added, starting with xylella which has not disappeared from the Apulian countryside. It is reasonable to expect a shot from President Emiliano. Since the leadership is manifested in the ability to manage the emergency and to envision an idea of the future. With extraordinary leaders for extraordinary times.Otherwise, as the philosopher Vaclav Belohradsky says, the hegemonies deflate when they cease to be relevant.
April 18, 2021 | 11:36
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