BARI (ITALPRESS) – “The cities are a common good, a heritage of all who must be protected and valued through a shared commitment to make them safer, more attractive and more liveable. For this reason, we want to strengthen the collaboration with Anci and next November 16th we will symbolically deliver the keys of our stores to the mayors”. Carlo Sangalli, national president of Confcommercio announces it from Bari, intervened at the opening of the two days – on 29 and 30 October – of the second edition of “InCittà – Spazi che Cambia, economie urban che Grow”. An event, promoted within the framework of the project Cities, dedicated to the present and future of the Italian cities and the economies of proximity, to compare institutions, enterprises, academic world, experts and civil society on the transformations that cross the urban spaces in Italy and on the contribution of the market tertiary to the local communities, not only in economic and employment terms, but also of service, care, security, identity and well-being.
Among the speeches of the first day at the Sala Murat, also those of Minister Adolfo Urso and Raffaele Fitto, Executive Vice President of the European Commission. “At the end of the year there are estimated about 458,000 local outlets, 17% of the total, with a higher incidence in the Mezzogiorno and in the small municipalities and a progressive desertification to which we do not intend to resign and on which we have already said to try to contain, brake, reverse the trend” explained the owner of the dicastery of Enterprises and Made in Italy. Among the measures mentioned, also the duties for articles from China («very often there are products that harm consumers or the environment because they do not comply with health rules, very often also the norms»).
The Executive Vice-President for the Cohesion and Reform of the European Commission, on the other hand, recalled the investments on the issue of houses, which, thanks to the mid-term review of European cohesion policy, will see Italy “to bring investments from 426 million to 1,8 billion euros, which become 2,5 billion with national co-financing at European level”.
On the stage of the event also the testimonies of three Italian entrepreneurs who have been able to implement a policy of regeneration in Ferrara, Milan and Foggia and the interview with Gaetano Manfredi, president of Anci and mayor of Naples: “In the transformation of cities – he recalled – the impact of commercial activities and above all of the commerce of proximity and determining. The mayors have clear ideas on what needs to be done, but often they do not have the regulatory instruments nor the financial levers in order to be able to put these policies in place”.
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