"The picture remains difficult, increasing our fragility. We cannot afford a renunciatory budget law: it must be linked as much as possible to the reforms and resources of the NRP. Because you write 'reforms' but you read 'growth' and 'efficiency' in spending. Protect and invest must be the watchwords. Protect inflation-hit households and businesses strangled by high costs'. The tax wedge on labour must now be 'cut structurally and the tax credit against high energy prices extended'. Young Entrepreneurs President Riccardo Di Stefano presented the theses at the opening of the 38th Conference in Capri.  

In a 'broken country', as in the infrastructural gap between North and South, it is 'necessary to reflect also on the project of differentiated autonomy', because 'it may present criticalities that must be considered. I summarise them in two words: responsibility and differentiation, which, paradoxically, are lacking,' Di Stefano said, warning that 'it would be wiser to take a step-by-step approach'.

On the development of the South and the issue of subsidies, the under-40 leader acknowledges 'the government for putting the South at the centre of its agenda. We share the politically difficult choice to change the citizenship income. However, we want active policies and the Siisl platform to work'. The point 'is to make people able to emancipate themselves from subsidies'.

From the Young Entrepreneurs came an invitation to the trade unions: between the social partners,' Di Stefano pointed out, 'for some time now, unfortunately, dialogue has become laboured, leaving some fundamental questions on the future of work unanswered'. Now 'the time has come to put bargaining back at the centre. Even at second level' as 'the natural place to link productivity and wages, expand welfare provision, structure working time that reconciles life and profession. Above all, for young people and women. Whose unemployment and inactivity rates are no longer sustainable'. And 'we must fight the battle for safety at work'.

The theses entitled 'Currents' addressed the issue of immigration: 'Not just an emergency or a public order problem. The model for managing migratory flows must be rethought by strengthening its national and European direction, with adequate resources and tools to manage and direct them instead of suffering them'.

And finally on energy, the Youth President reiterated: 'Overcome fears and prejudices' on the latest generation of nuclear power and 'speed up authorisations' for renewables: ''Hurry up because the planet is dying' will remain just a phrase if the facts are the queues at the counter'.