Man will return to the moon by 2024, promette Elon Musk. If he went there tonight, he would find a group of Italian politicians scrambling over the 110% building Superbonus. Just someone stunned by the absence of gravity could block the government’s work on a similar measure, however well thought out and poorly applied, given that it has clashed with the millions of micro and macro abuses that decorate Italian buildings. From shopping mall closures over the weekend to a single hour of curfew more or less, the majority appear to be very focused on the here and now.
The government had to postpone the Council of Ministers twice (it will take place after 9.30 pm) because each faction tries to wave its flag on the PNRR, while Draghi tries to explain to Brussels a draft in which the details on the most important reforms are still missing. including that of justice and public administration. Reforms to be approved – by means of decrees – immediately after the presentation of the plan.
Down on Earth, but outside the national borders, the others (not) are watching. L’Economist, complete with a dark vignette, the title is “The Draghi delusion” the weekly column on Europe. Be careful not to slip on the false friend: i deluded they are not the deluded, but the deluded, those who consider SuperMario capable of revolutionizing what has been paralyzed for too long. Praising the skills of the former central banker, the English weekly outlines an unflattering Italian and European political context: if Draghi succeeds in the enterprise, it will mean that only a technician can tame the unmanageable Italians; if it fails, it will prove that no one is capable of doing it.
Also there Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung dedicates an article to the Prime Minister, and again plays on the combination of disappointment / illusion, this time generated by Giuseppe Conte, who “made the Recovery Fund appear as an inexhaustible cornucopia that would have guaranteed the long-cherished wishes of voters and clientele” , while Draghi “does not want only to distribute money, but to make a strict selection on the projects that really bring new economic growth (…) which is the only way to avoid doubts about the sustainability of Italian public finances”.
Both editorials, widely read in international circles, do not look to the next weekend, but to the next decade. Will Draghi’s reform drive be maintained by whoever comes next? Will the economic forecasts be respected? For the Does, Conte had overestimated growth in 2021, and the current government risks underestimating the social spending linked to the end of the layoff freeze, and the weight of possible defaults on state-guaranteed loans (which alone are worth 215 billion).
We just have to hope that Musk hurries to bring the man back to the moon, so we can bring our political class back to this planet.