”Rome is a Ferrari but without petrol” and ”the truth is that without petrol a Ferrari cannot walk and the petrol is the financial flows”. Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, president of ‘Messaggero’, said this during the meeting ‘Italy is transformed – A Capital Challenge’, organized by ‘Il Messaggero’ in the Protomoteca room in the Campidoglio.
”Precisely with autonomy there is another push towards decentralization from Rome and therefore a prospect of possible impoverishment, loss of GDP, jobs and therefore compensatory payments are essential. We Romans must ask for rules that restore the financial flows that have been taken away from us, our survival is at stake”.
”For years I have been an entrepreneur with the optimism of will, mine is a spur: a lot has been taken away from Rome and we need to start thinking about giving it back”.
In the audience are the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano, the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, Azzurra Caltagirone, the actor and director Carlo Verdone, the journalist and host Bruno Vespa and the director of Tg1 Gian Marco Chiocci.
Salvini: “If the capital doesn’t run, Italy doesn’t run”
“If it doesn’t run in Rome, Italy doesn’t run.” Thus the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini at the Il Messaggero event ‘Italy is transformed, a capital challenge’, in the Sala della Promoteca of the Campidoglio. “I I am convinced that if each of us in our own small way, without ideologies, does our job, in the next three years and three months that we still have in office we will leave a more modern and efficient Italy in 2027. Starting from Rome.
“Next year some regions will have already opened negotiations to manage skills and we could perhaps verify the positive results, without impoverishing the capital. I am convinced that we can win the challenge.”
Gualtieri: “Becoming an engine of growth for the country, the Capital can do it”
The ”central role of Rome for the relaunch of Italy” is a ”decisive theme. Today, I am convinced, it not only can but is playing the role of the country’s locomotive and a country in which the capital is not relaunched cannot face its challenges” said the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri.
This ”is not the time for alibis and recriminations but for pride, courage and hard work to make investments and unleash the enormous potential of the city”. We ”are convinced that the challenge can be won, that there is a lot to do but Rome can reach a high level of quality of services and administrative action but above all it can win the challenge of returning to being an engine of growth and relaunching the country, Rome can do it”.
”Italy must finally address the issue of the role, functions and resources of its capital and address the issue not as support for someone but for the country and as an investment in Italy’s ability to compete in the world. We are determined, it is a topic that concerns Italy’s interest which involves the relaunch of its capital”. It is ”a central theme, given that we are also in a phase of significant interventions from the point of view of the country’s institutional structure”.
”We have decided to implement the largest investment plan, Next Generation Rome, also encouraging public-private partnerships. A plan that amounts to 15.5 billion euros, with a high level of ambition, which aims to address the structural issues of the city, banishing from our vocabulary the expression ‘it can’t be done in Rome”.
Verdone: “I expect a better future for Rome, they deserve it”
For the future of Rome, said the actor and director Carlo Verdone, “I expect something better”. “There are many construction sites and those who live there will have better benefits than us, they will have a working metro, with many finds subways that will also become museums. Maybe it will flow better, there’s no need to asphalt the Tiber, as I said in ‘Gallo cedrone’. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, it really deserves it.”
