Goodbye, bye bye, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye.
The active residence income that has conquered the most renowned international newspapers is definitively waning. Nothing to be done, therefore: due to the effects of Regional Council resolution number 210 of 7 May, all hypothesized transfers of residence to Molise, imagined by Italians of Italian origin scattered around the world, by Italians residing in large centers eager to ‘escape ‘ in our local oasis, by foreign citizens who dreamed of a future in green Molise thanks to the economic support hypothesized in 2019 by the then regional councilor Antonio Tedeschi. In the safe of this ‘repopulation’ announced just under one million euros, a sum that will soon be reprogrammed. Which means it will be used for other projects.
The public notice from five years ago concerned the possibility, for those who met the requirements, of being able to access an economic fund useful for moving to municipalities with a population of up to 2 thousand inhabitants. Seven hundred euros a month and a business project to be carried out in the XX region which should have remained standing for at least five years: a way to revitalize those small towns now at risk of human desertification and of essential services, in fact.
With the decision taken by President Roberti and his executive – largely anticipated in January when the governor himself responded to a question from councilor Massimo Romano (aided by the fact that the former Tedeschi was a candidate on the same list for the Regional elections, most likely) – the public notice approved in 2019 for the amount of 997 thousand euros and some change has been officially revoked.
Goodbye, bye bye, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye.
With separate deedthe resources will be reprogrammed “subject to signing a new agreement with the Ministry of Economy and Finance and with the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy” for the implementation of an intervention aimed at promoting economic development measures.
There were precisely two public notices issued in 2019, following a memorandum of understanding signed between the Ministry of Economy and Finance, that of Economic Development and the Molise Region and aimed at the use of resources for one million and 677 thousand euros about.
One concerned the maintenance and improvement of essential services in the municipalities through the establishment of a cohesion fund in favor of small centers with at least a thousand inhabitants through the allocation of over 700 thousand euros and the other, precisely, for the income of active residence through the establishment of a fund aimed at those who would have started an entrepreneurial activity with simultaneous transfer to one of the Molise municipalities with at least 2 thousand inhabitants, providing in this case an allocation for the first year of approximately 488 thousand euros and with the possibility of a second event of interest with the commitment of a sum of the same amount.
The process for the residence income, started in 2019 in the interest of national and international press bodies, first led to the identification of the Municipalities where the interested parties could have moved and then to the evaluation of the requests received for an amount of 977 thousand euros.
Some problems of a technical nature became apparent when it emerged that the notice – intended for subjects coming from another nation – did not include any reference to legislation on immigration. Process suspended for at least two years and then, in the world, everything happened, starting with the pandemic emergency.
In the resolution of 7 May, in the reasons for which it was decided to revoke the notice on the income of active residence, it is stated that to proceed, the costs would have increased considering that the technical evaluation of the projects, at the basis of the granting of financing, should have been the responsibility of a commission of external professionals. An economic burden that the Region cannot afford.
Not to mention that perhaps all the participants in the notice may have lost interest, as five years have now passed. Or they may have missed the requirements identified then. Or, again, that the candidate projects may no longer be economically sustainable in light of the increases recorded in each area of intervention.
Therefore, “in agreement with the financing ministries”, it was decided to activate a different intervention with the same resources intended for active residence income.
Last January, in the Regional Council following the question of councilor Romano, councilor Cefaratti had already given indications on what then happened in these hours. Given the difficulties in the concrete implementation of active residence income, the Molise Region – evidently in order not to lose that funding – he had asked the Ministries if it was possible to allocate that sum elsewhere. And evidently the positive response has arrived.
Another point on which the councilor focused then concerned the concrete implementation of the project: those 24 thousand euros to be granted to the ‘new Molise people’ would in fact have supported only 39 projects. Certainly useful in combating depopulation and birth rates but evidently not decisive.
“For a call like this, the resources must be very high,” Cefaratti said at the time.
Councilor Romano was obviously dissatisfied with the response. “The fact that the stakeout was not particularly significant does not deprive the initiative of its objective importance” in his words.
In short, bureaucratic problems can be solved if the idea is to keep a valid initiative going, which has had enormous media coverage and which in some way puts a stop to depopulation, perhaps creating a multiplier effect on the meaning of the words spoken. from Romano in the courtroom.
In short, it’s really goodbye, ciao ciao, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye.
