Manfredi promotes the Report on "Levers for growth" to enhance the legacy of the Pnrr

«The objective of improving Italy and moving the country forward by solving problems must be the aim of politics at all levels, but it is particularly so for mayors who, more than others, move among people, crossing expectations, needs and the desire for answers». Gaetano Manfredi, president of the Anci and mayor of Naples, starts from the «need for concreteness that we urgently experience in local authorities» to explain the reasons that led the association of Municipalities, institutional before political and transversal by nature because the administrations are of all colours, to promote the Report on «Levers for growth», edited by Roberto Garofoli.

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The analysis arrives in the final phase of the Pnrr, of which it asks to assume the legacy of the method as well as the fruits of the investments. What final balance is being developed in local authorities in recent years?

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We believe, without any emphasis, that the experience of the PNRR lived since the summer of 2020, spanning three governments, two legislatures and conflicts in Europe and around the world, has been unprecedented and successful in many respects. Certainly we could have done better, as always. But only those who, like mayors, know the daily struggle of having the right resources to do things and know the delays, the useless intermediaries, the years, the decades to complete the works, know that there is another way, and it is the possibility of a change. Precisely for this reason, in the year of the Republic's 80th anniversary, it is important to talk about the state of the country in strategic sectors, starting from the analysis of data, highlighting the impact of the innovations, simplifications and advancements of recent years and enhancing the application of a method of implementing public policies that we believe should be brought into full swing.

Support for such extensive work cannot arise only from the desire to "take stock". What is the real ambition?

We have promoted this analysis, undoubtedly complex and broad, to highlight the very close link between competitiveness and growth, reduction of inequalities and innovation of institutional structures, identifying some perspectives and with an exclusive spirit of service. We operate with the awareness that every mission is possible if the right rules of engagement are established, everyone's tasks and objectives are defined and if we all move in the same direction with teamwork to make Italy grow. The ambition is to animate a debate, create a place for discussion, mobilize political forces, institutions and representatives of the economic and productive system in a healthy and positive way. I announced the launch of this initiative last year at the National Assembly in Bologna, and the hope is that the work will be a starting point capable of mobilizing those who care about the many messages and perspectives indicated in the Report with a path of elaboration and implementation in the fields of respective competence and action. After the Pnrr, it is a question of not dispersing its many positive aspects. The country must instead move forward, and above all be aware that processes must be simplified, programs and priorities must be defined, and clear tasks must be set.