Frequently Asked Questions
Question: How does the "Cresci Italia" decree intend to develop the southern italian regions?
Answer: The "Cresci Italia" decree introduces new rules that will benefit everyone, regardless of where they live, by heightening competition and easing the burdens on business. From the outset, the government committed itself to narrowing the economic and infrastructure divide between Southern Italy and the rest of the country. Proof of this commitment was the fact that on the day the Cabinet approved the Cresci Italia decree, the Interdepartmental Committee for Economic Planning (CIPE) decided to earmark fresh funds to complete the Naples–Bari–Lecce/Taranto, Salerno–Calabria and Potenza–Foggia rail links, (€790,000,000,€240,000,000, and €200,000,000, respectively) and to adopt measures under the “The landslide and watershed” resolution to address the hydro-geological problems of Southern Italy.
This resolution allocates €679.7 million (of which €352 million at the disposal of the regional governments and €262 million to be invested in implementation programmes) for 518 projects jointly identified between 2010 and 2011 by the Regional governments, the Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry for Territorial Cohesion. The seven Southern Italian Regions that will benefit from these measures will be Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily.
At its previous meeting on 6 December, 2011, CIPE had already allocated €123.3 million for infrastructure projects in Southern Italy, €21 million of which to finance the Palermo-Agrigento clearway, and the balance to upgrade the Jonica highway, Taranto harbour and the Naples Metropolitan Railway.
Page updated february 8th 2012
