The Minister of Public Administration Renato Brunetta is almost moved when he takes the stage of the Innovation Festival in Venice: “From Rome I work for my city”
VENEZIA. “I was really excited to come in here after 40 years. I used to go there for gymnastics. It is a beautiful place that has come back to life. I remember it as a dusty and abandoned warehouse ».
The Minister of Public Administration Renato Brunetta is almost moved when he takes the stage of the Innovation Festival organized by “Il Foglio”.
The conference takes place on the ground floor of the Misericordia, the Scuola Grande work by Jacopo Sansovino that the mayor Luigi Brugnaro has in concession and has restored with his Umana.
At the end of the intervention they give him a match ball. Brunetta comes out in the foundations and dribbles. «I was playing, huh …?! Don’t believe it? I was good at dribbling along the pitch, making passes. Then when it was time to shoot it was difficult ».
Then he asks to visit the second floor as well. Where Serie A matches were played until the seventies. Audience crowded on the windows and on the sidelines of the “church”, as the visiting teams called it. Faded frescoes that have now regained their former glory. “A nice restoration,” he says.
For a man it is a homecoming. «I come from Cannaregio», he always repeats, «my father was a peddler. It’s nice to be back in my city ».
The minister tells of the latest government decisions. The Green Pass, the vaccines, the economy. “If the strategy works, it means reopening. We travel towards 7 percent of GDP. In the public administration we will have competitions and new jobs, with a physiological replacement of 100-110 thousand jobs per year linked to the NRP. And a new contract for smart-working, a contract parallel to the existing one.
Then he talks about Venice. “I’m looking after my city even though I’m not in Venice,” he continues. The other evening the approval of the project for the train at the airport. Controversy and diversity of views on the route and the environmental impact. “In the end we found a good solution.” he says, “the impact has been lessened. I greatly appreciated the competence of the Minister of Infrastructures and also the institutional correctness of Minister Franceschini, who raised the problem of protection ». Brunetta talks at length with the mayor Brugnaro, then with his secretary of Forza Italia in the Veneto, the councilor for the budget Michele Zuin. It promises news for the protection, with the launch of the new Authority of the lagoon. After the decree on large ships, the exclusion of incompatible ships from the lagoon and the green light for alternatives in Marghera, pending the off shore terminal. Brunetta is in great harmony with Prime Minister Mario Draghi, an economist like him. Yesterday he reiterated his closeness to the city administration. And in the end he came out with the basketball in his hand. They promised me we’ll play a game. We also invite Zuin who is strong … “
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