(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 1 - Premier Giuseppe Conte said Wednesday
that the government's "simplification" decree seeking to
streamline bureaucracy is the "mother of all reforms".
"The pandemic has caused an unprecedented recession," Conte
told a Question Time session in the Lower House.
"One of the instruments with which to boost growth is
undoubtedly the simplification decree, which I consider
indispensable in order to modernize Italy and get the whole
country moving.
"That's why we are talking in a constructive way in order to
find a solution.
"The measures that will be introduced with the simplification
decree aim to speed up the procedures for public works and
reinforce bulwarks of legality".
He said one of the aims was to change things so that civil
servants are no long "afraid to sign off" on procedures for
public works.
Conte added that the debate between government partners on using
the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) bailout fund to finance
COVID-linked spending projects was not linked to budgetary and
fiscal policy.
He also said that the EU's proposed 750 billion euro Recovery
Fund should "maintain the ambitions of the initial plan".
(ANSA).