Camusso slams Draghi, Padoan

(ANSA) - Treviso, May 22 - CGIL union chief Susanna Camusso said Friday it's easy for European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi to make positive forecasts after seven years of economic woes.
    "I think it's easy to make forecasts like Mario Draghi did, given that we come from seven years of backtracking," Camusso said at a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War I.
    Camusso went on to say that criticizing the Constitutional Court's pensions ruling only makes sense if the ruling is thought to be unconstitutional. Her remarks came after Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said the Court should have considered the cost more carefully before ruling against a 2011 freeze in index-linked rises in some higher State pensions. "The Constitutional Court did not consider the hole (in the budget) created regarding the pensions," Padoan said. "The Constitutional Court is not a department of the economy ministry," Camusso said.
    "Its job is to assess whether or not laws are in line with the Constitution".
    Camusso added the 2011 measure that capped pensions contained "a series of injustices", which the CGIL had pointed out long before the Court's ruling.
    She went on to approve the government's newly passed anti-corruption law, and especially the fact that it puts false accounting back in the criminal code after the Silvio Berlusconi administration had reduced it to a misdemeanor.
    "It took a long time but I think it's a positive response," Camusso said.
    "More can be done," she added.