L’AQUILA – “The Europe I dream of, the one I am fighting for, must put the issue of birthrate declinewhich risks undermining our economy, our social model, in a word the future of Europe itself.”
The architect from L’Aquila says so Eliseo Iannini, Forza Italia candidate in the European elections in the Southern constituency of next June, founder of the entrepreneurial group of the same name which has been operating successfully in the construction sector for decades, now passed into the hands of the second generation, in particular his son Davide.
“The demographic crisis,” continues Iannini, “is a phenomenon that grips not only our country, and there is only one way to get out of it: create the material conditions for young people to start a family, to go back to having children, to have faith in the future. Motherhood must be supported in every way, given that many women give up having children due to objective difficulties, for example reconciling being mothers with work and a professional career”.
In this sense, adds Iannini, “the 50 million euros allocated by the Italian government for nurseries, crucial structures to help families and women, is certainly going in the right direction. Increasing the places available in public nursery schools also means taking a giant step in gender equality, which is an issue connected to that of the birth rate.”
Iannini therefore recalls, “We need to give trust to young people and mine is not a cliché, it is not rhetoric, because it is what I did personally, handing over the reins of the company to my two sons. Unfortunately, this is not something to be taken for granted: many young people in Italy today do not find the possibility to express themselves, to have opportunities that match their skills and expectations, and those who can pack their bags and go to work abroad, thus contributing to the demographic erosion”.
Finally, Iannini tells an anecdote: “In recent days I held a meeting in a municipality in the province of Naples, where I met 150 young people, and on 8 and 9 June all or almost all of them will be having their first experience of voting. Well, more than one said to me, ‘but why do we have to vote for Europe?’. Well, this makes us understand that today Europe is not perceived as close, and it is the task of whoever is going to govern it to change the minds of these young people of ours. This is to give an even more important meaning to our work to raise awareness of voting in this complex and exhausting electoral campaign.”
