Gentiloni: "Reassign the bathing concessions". Salvini: "Anti-Italian words"
The EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs: "The competition regime cannot be ignored". Minister Gelmini: "The government is trying to find a solution"
"Since tourism is so important for a country like Italy, it is very important to invest and do it with the ability to make the most of what are the bathing concessions, so these concessions must be reassigned through tender mechanisms". He said this during the course of a press point, the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni.
"This - added the former Prime Minister - does not mean ignoring the work done, the investments made, the social repercussions of the reassignment, but at the same time we cannot ignore the fact that we are in a competitive regime and there may be investors who they make better use of this heritage ".
Gentiloni's words had immediate reactions.
Lega secretary Matteo Salvini speaks of an “unworthy invasion of the anti-Italian camp by a European commissioner appointed by Italy. What does Letta say? The Democratic Party that tells 30,000 entrepreneurs and 300,000 workers that they risk losing jobs and years of sacrifices? ".
"The League, its ministers and parliamentarians - adds Salvini - are working for a solution that, in compliance with the rules, does not allow the sale of Italian beaches".
On the other hand, the 5 Star Movement takes a completely different opinion: “We learn with profound bewilderment of Matteo Salvini's latest sortie on concessions for bathing establishments. It is confirmed once again anti-Italian, given that if he wanted to dodge the Bolkestein he would send tens of thousands of
businesses straight towards a legal abyss ”, reads a note from the pentastellati. "The story that there would be an expropriation of Italian beaches, with the consequent loss of work for 300 thousand people, does not hold up", adds the M5S. “The ruling of the Council of State is clear: assignments with public tenders are required by 31 December 2023, or the concessions will lapse. Already today there are appeals for the legitimacy of the concessions with attached plant seizures. Doing nothing, as the Lega and FDI propose, would mean exponentially multiplying this administrative part of the judiciary, with incalculable damage for businesses and for the country ”, concludes the M5S.
The government's position in the words of the Minister for Regional Affairs Mariastella Gelmini: "There is the government's commitment to find adequate solutions to be put in place to safeguard the operators in the sector". The executive, added the minister, " he will make a proposal and before the Council of Ministers decides on the matter of state-owned concessions, it will be my responsibility to convene a new meeting ".
(Unioneonline / lf)
