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Cottarelli: “Resignation? I continue to work. ” First report … – Il Sole 24 Ore

Cottarelli: "Resignation? I continue to work. " First report … – Il Sole 24 Ore

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“Now I work, I continue to work, there are important things to do. Everything else … I focus on the work. ” The commissioner spending review Carlo Cottarelli thus responds to rumors about his possible resignation after the new clutches in recent days with the government and Parliament. It announces a hearing to the bicameral committee for the implementation of fiscal federalism that is ready rationalization plan of the local participatory, with the objective to reduce by 8 thousand in thousand in three years and achieve efficiency and cost savings. “This afternoon I will send it to the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the spending review,” he assured Cottarelli. But when asked if he will meet Renzi replied: “If I’m going calls.”

Since the reorganization of the local Spa save 2-3 billion
The plan was prepared by the investee Dl which introduced the bonus income tax (Article 23 of Decree 66/2014). The idea behind the reorganization – announced April 18 by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi with the slogan “from 8 thousand to one thousand” – is to prune the “jungle” of about 10 thousand local participatory, addressing in particular the scissors to the companies or instrumental even “commercial”, far from the “core”. But the report also has another chapter, not least work on the field of local public services in the strict sense (transport, energy, waste) to make them more efficient shots of mergers incentives and constraints on the losses. The possible savings Cottarelli points out: “It is difficult to estimate because there are no hidden leaks that emerge from the financial statements, but I believe that by reducing the number of subsidiaries, and the efficiency of other savings we could get to 2-3 billion each.”

“Do not turn off the lights in the streets»
Super-has reduced the possibility of drastic interventions on lighting road: “I want to reassure you that do not turn off the lights in the the streets. ” Adding, however, that it is studying a proposal to “investment technology to permit savings and efficiency,” developed by an ad hoc working group led by the Ministry for Economic Development, who have not yet participated in the municipalities. The goal is to reduce the approximately two billion a year that is spent to keep the lamps lit. “About 10% of the savings we are looking at – he said – could come abasement of the lights in certain non-urban areas but the bulk of the operation is to improve energy efficiency.”



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