Treu: building the recovery of the Country, strengthening the debate with the social partners

The pandemic has hit the Country's system violently and has caused problems to which we have to find a rapid solution. An analysis of the critical issues to deal with is fundamental to build specific proposals for the Country's recovery. The State intervention has to prevent the healthcare emergency from causing a permanent contraction of the productive ability and therefore the loss of employment and a social crisis. It's necessary to build a "Country project" that projects Italy towards the new social, economic and political scenario that is being formed, which will be different from the one we knew before the pandemic".

This is what CNEL President Tiziano Treu wrote in the "General guidelines of the President to address the administrative action for the year 2020". This year, the document "is particularly significant both for the results obtained in 2019, which set forth the return to the legislative initiative with 14 legislative proposals, and for the work done during the health emergency to analyse the measures adopted by the Government".

 "Within the framework of its constitutional prerogatives, the CNEL is required to further strengthen the confrontation phase with the social partners: on the one hand, concerning the verification of the effectiveness of the measures to support the economic and social crisis, on the other, on the construction of proposals for the revitalisation of the country”, continued Treu.

 Among the points envisaged by the Guidelines there are: consultancy activities for the Parliament and the Government on economic and social issues, with particular reference to stress tests on the sectors most affected by the effects of Covid-19; proposals on smart working and reform of social safety nets also on the basis of what emerged in the health emergency phase. In addition, the CNEL activity will be oriented on three priority axes: the country's industrial policy plan capable of managing the major transitions that await us in the European context; the revision of the fiscal and welfare system to combat inequalities; the simplification of the rules and administrative procedures necessary for the development of the Country.

"The CNEL is a privileged monitoring unit and, in this serious crisis of the Country, it cannot avoid making its own assessments for the benefit of the community", concluded Treu.