a single Invitalia plant to unlock the funds of the South

With the 2020 Budget Law, you are working on a South floor to unlock it stall of funds available of the regions of twelve o'clock which remain unused. According to the news reported by The sun 24 hours, a leading role this could be assigned to Invitalia, National Agency for the attraction of investments and business development headed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, as single national central purchasing body.

The input to take action on the management of funds in the South also comes fromEurope: in recent weeks Marc Lemaitre, Director General for Regional Policy of the EU Commission, wrote to Giuseppe Provenzano, Minister for the South and Territorial Cohesion to express the concern regarding the use of public resources spent on the territory, under the agreements made with Brussels.

The call of the EU opens up another reflection, which goes further. If along with the lack of investments, the difficulties in having access to the opportunities already envisaged are also considered, the South bonus is emblematic, the southern paradox clearly emerges: even when the tools are there, they often remain inaccessible.

South Floor: a single Invitalia Central to unlock the funds deadlock

The Minister for the South and for Territorial Cohesion on 8 October responded to the EU with an admission of guilt it's a worrying picture of the situation which presents "A lower level of public investment than ever" it's a'implementation of the 2014-2020 Development and Cohesion Funds stop at 20%, after the first 5 years of implementation.

"The real challenge is to strengthen the administrative capacity of regions and local authorities, so we are imagining a standard protocol and procedures to accelerate the realization of investments".

The South Plan is based, among other things, on this strategy and on the need to render operational clause established by the Mezzogiorno decree, which would oblige the state to make ordinary investments in the South of 34%.

Also Domenico Arcuri, managing director of Invitalia, during his speech at the convention of young industrialists of Capri on October 18, he stressed the not very reassuring numbers:

"To reverse the course it is necessary to learn to make the best use of the available resources. The State Accounting Office has published the Monitoring Report on Cohesion Policies. In the 2014-2020 period 54.7 billion are available to the southern regions. Of these, 17,1 were assigned to specific tasks. Of the remaining 37.6 billion, 11.6% was committed e spent only 2.8%. These numbers are at odds with the endogenous gap that remains in our country ".

South Plan: effective strategies are needed in the new Budget 2020 law

The framework that pushes to develop a Effective South Floor and the photography of an immobile system which as such is unlikely to progress. The umpteenth and new season of a southern issue.

In other words: you invest less than you should and when resources there are not used or are inaccessible.

The last hypothesis is the case of the South 2019 bonus, access to employment incentives in the South was characterized by a series of stumbles. From the 2019 Budget Law to the present, the facilitation has had a winding path:

• at first, the possibility of benefiting from the tax reliefs was questioned recruitment from January to April, then the situation was resolved with the Growth Decree;
• a second phase of waiting ended in July: after the first 7 months of the year the INPS operating circular blocked incentives;
• a third unforeseen event occurred in September when the demands of employers who took over from May on remained in stand by for lack of funds, a problem overcome with an ANPAL directive decree ad hoc.

The South 2019 bonus is theemblem of an inaccessible system and that turns around on itself.

State, local authorities, private individuals, in turn all the actors in the field have the part of their responsibility and in turn they block the push forward needed in the regions of the South: it is on this awareness that the South floor must be built.