The value of cohesion. The presentation of the Svimez Report 2026

The presentation of the SVIMEZ 2026 Report - The economy and society of Southern Italy "The value of cohesion", in the New Hall of the Parliamentary Groups Building of the Chamber of Deputies, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.

The event, eighty years after the foundation of Svimez, will start with the institutional greetings of the President of the Chamber of Deputies Lorenzo Fontana and the introduction of the SVIMEZ Vice President Gian Paolo Manzella, followed by the panel entitled "The 80 years of SVIMEZ and the value of cohesion" with the interventions of Giovanni Farese, Professor of History of Economics at the European University of Rome and professor at LUISS Guido Carli, and Silvana Sciarra, President emeritus of the Constitutional Court.

This will be followed by the presentation of the SVIMEZ 2026 Report curated by the General Director of SVIMEZ Luca Bianchi.

The work will continue with the second session and the talk "North and South between territories, businesses and development policies", which will see the video-link interventions of the Executive Vice President of the European Commission Raffaele Fitto and the Minister for European Affairs, the PNRR and Cohesion Policies Tommaso Foti, which will be followed by the round table in which the ANCI President and Mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi, the President of the Campania Region Roberto Fico, the General Director of Confindustria Maurizio Tarquini and the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Luigi Sbarra, with the moderation of the Il Sole 24 Ore journalist Manuela Perrone.