Time.news – “We owe a debt to young people “, a debt not only financial, which must be repaid by planning an adequate future for them, without letting themselves be held back by ephemeral evaluations, with the collaboration of public and private. Sergio Mattarella visits Cremona, remembers the victims of the covid by discovering a plaque in Piazza Duomo and attends the ceremony at the University of the city, inaugurating the Santa Monica Campus. For the president it is the second visit to a Lombard university in a week and for the first time the citizens, well spaced and with masks, attend the visit in the square. A signal of restart that makes the Head of State express the “conviction that in this territory full of culture, productive dynamism and a sense of community, recovery will certainly be fast and effective”.
But while the government, parties and social partners are scrambling on measures to support the economy, on the stop to layoffs, on the rules for procurement and simplifications, on the various tax reform proposals starting from that of the Democratic Party which provides for a ‘dowry’ to young people with greater difficulties, the President calls parties and social partners for the third time in a few days to put all their energy into the field with a spirit of collaboration. And above all by putting in place projects that are not ephemeral but that look to the future. The Campus inaugurated today in Cremona is a virtuous example, explains Mattarella, why “The result of a collaboration between public and private. A precious condition also in general, particularly at this moment, in this contingency “. For the President of the Republic “collaboration between all the realities of the country is essential to define in the best way, to implement, to promptly and efficiently solicit the programs of the NRP”. The exit from the pandemic, from the economic crisis it has created, will be largely based on projects financed with EU Next Generation funds and “their timely, fast and effective implementation requires the contribution of all the energy of the country. This need must be felt for every problem concerning this moment of Italy’s recovery ”.
But Mattarella’s gaze is directed above all to young people and to the “debt” we owe to them. “This is an opportunity, with the programs currently being defined and implemented for the Recovery, to adequately design the future of our country to be handed over to young people”. The method to be used is very clear to the President: it must “Avoid the temptation, the tendency that is often felt, of being imprisoned in the exclusive, and therefore ephemeral, consideration of the present moment that ignores the past and history and neglects the future”. Therefore, no to spot proposals, to controversy over individual measures, we need a collaboration between everyone, institutions, political forces and social forces to think about a new development, based on “a new balance, improving the social, environmental and economic sustainability of our model of life “. Italy now has a clear need in front of it:” to think of young people beyond the conveniences of the moment to guarantee them an adequate future “.
Mattarella then dedicates an in-depth study to the environmental issue, a decisive area of the ‘debt to the new generations’ because “a decisive challenge today is quality, which reverberates in all sectors”. There are “the need and the objective of providing food to everyone, without impoverishing the earth, without robbing it to pass it on in good health to future generations in a condition that is strongly felt here”.