At the CISL congress in Arborea, the President of the Region took stock of Sardinia's position during the worst moments of the pandemic and the prospects for the next decades.

"The pandemic - said Christian Solinas - has forced a review of the political agenda of governments around the world, and has had absolutely unprecedented effects on the economic system. Despite the difficulties, the regional government has implemented and implemented, as the Bank of Italy and the Court of Auditors have certified effective measures that are giving a positive result ". Sardinia, he stressed, is the region that during the pandemic "invested more of its own resources than all the others to deal with the effects of the crisis, and offered tools, starting from the Resisto Fund to aid from the tourism sector and many other categories, which guaranteed support and resistance. But there is a risk of failure - he warned - if this financial commitment is not matched by the necessary human capital, that is, if the public sector does not have the internal resources to be able to quickly reach businesses and people with these resources. The last twenty years of policies of non-coverage of turnover, of violent contraction of the workforce in public administrations in all sectors - added the governor - have been a failure, a strategic and historical error. Today structural problems are coming to a head, such as the evidence that a health system cannot cope with thousands of more or less incentivized annual exodus, without coverage, without new hires ".

Among the themes touched upon in his speech, also that of depopulation: “The question of inland areas concerns everyone. Certainly in the first place those who live in territories now almost completely deprived of essential services, but the rest of the citizens are also involved. In this year's budget we decided on an immediate measure that would give an injection of liquidity to inland areas in order to combat depopulation. Offering those who have no prospect the opportunity to stay in their own country is the first step in ensuring that they do not close the shop, the bar, the school, or close other services. We therefore considered it essential to accompany families to the birth rate, recognizing for each unborn child a support of 600 euros each month, for the first 5 years of life, to allow us to plan a future for our children ”.

In addition, the budget provides for the possibility of a contribution for those who open a business in those same areas, for those who decide to renovate a house in the historic centers of small municipalities under 3,000 inhabitants.

The intent is to “configure Sardinia, in the eyes of the world, as an ecosystem favorable to investments in research, development and innovation. In this sense we must read, not only symbolically, the great investment we are making in supporting the Einstein Telescope project in Lula. The Einstein Telescope will be the largest gravitational wave detector project in the world. For the next 50 years, researchers from all over the world will come to that venue and propose a demand for services, which will therefore feed that particular location in Sardinia and all inland areas ". And, again, another project highlighted by the president is that which concerns the wells of the Carbosulcis mines, which represented a historical problem for years and which were in the process of being definitively closed. "In one of these wells, with the University of Cagliari and the University of Princeton, we agreed on the 'Aria' project, and built the first distillation tower in Sardinia of Argon, a noble gas, which we will sell to the Institute National National Institute of Nuclear Physics ".

For Solinas it will be fundamental to "renegotiate the conditions of our specialty", the ability to recognize it "was lost" for example when "in the signing of the treaties establishing the European Union, other countries explicitly entered their islands to exempt them from application of state aid regulations. This is the case of the Canaries, the Azores, other territorial realities exempted from the application of a series of rules, regulations, community directives, which have, over time, weakened our production structure. Continuity in transport - the president said - is a problem of territorial cohesion. It is a problem that questions the European Union, the Italian state. Our highways are, for goods, the holds of ships, and they are for passengers, especially planes. They are an intangible infrastructure which is called an airline or a sea line. There is no highway that has a different rate between those who go up and those who go down. That is why we insist that Sardinia is entitled not only to adequate airlines, in terms of frequency and aircraft, but also to a single rate that allows us to go to the rest of the world, but also to the rest of the world. come towards us. Regarding transport, territorial continuity, everything cannot be left to the free market, as the European Union would like ".

"And then - he added - that for a public garrison, a series of routes and frequencies guaranteed with an agreement, with the use of public service obligations or with a company exactly as happens in Corsica or in many other parts of the world, I believe it is a battle that can also be fought together. In the latest Budget, a sum is foreseen that will allow us to study a serious industrial plan, which could lead us not only to govern our territorial continuity, and finally be we are those who choose frequencies, routes, aircraft, but also to recover the wealth of skills and abilities that have consolidated over the long history of Alisarda and then Air Italy ".

On these and other issues Solinas clarified that "the trade unions and regional politics can and should sit around a table in this particular historical moment, to indicate a way that puts the interests of this island at the center, both from the point of view of energy supply and under other vital issues. It is my intention to ask President Draghi, before a shared position emerges from Sardinia, not to issue any decree that imposes and makes energy choices in Sardinia drop from above. I will involve - he concluded - all the trade union forces and universities, to seek together a new way and the solution to a mortifying and penalizing vision for our land ".

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