Agreements for the South, the new bet of development – Il Sole 24 Ore

The new bet for the acceleration of investment and development in the South is called “pact for the South”, eight government-regions agreements and seven government-metropolitan cities agreements which the government is allocating a total of 13.4 billion of the 43.8 billion of development cohesion Fund (FSC). If the jump is remarkable and lets you plan to use unconventional and imposed from above, by way ‘of ATM for everyone’s needs, have in the past of the Fas (Fund underdeveloped areas), ancestor of the FSC, to look to the future with confidence.

The aim of the agreements is to resolve infrastructure and digital nodes blocked for some time and support companies that aim to invest, grow, go on foreign markets, digitalizzarsi (in this sense the news that you can read in this the OK page Brussels to the tax credit are encouraging). It is to make the city more attractive and smart. They are looking to advanced services and not only to the works, favoring technological interventions, lightweight, effective. Infrastructures have to go back to being containers of services serving the local area. The change from the past is mainly in reducing pulverized interventions and ends in themselves instead to point to a growth of competitiveness of the territories.

The virtuous spiral that should enable it to accelerate and select public investment to encourage the private sector. The new programming cycle of 2014-2020 EU funds and related national funds (co-financing, FSC, Pac) has realized that even in the South development goes especially for the revival of competitive industrial areas and that there is no growth without industry. 4.0 There is an industry that can enable you to start faster, reduce the competitiveness gap, make great leaps in productivity, find a “reason” strong investment. The current phase is to translate this new approach into action and the participation of companies in this project, with an attitude often innovative and enthusiastic, suggests that there is a new development on the outskirts season. Address the contribution of all in that direction is critical today for growth and jobs. The agreements for the South are the potential platform for enabling this convergence.

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