“Campania in the red zone will turn into a mortal blow for companies if there is no immediate support”. This is what Vincenzo Schiavo, president of Confesercenti Campania, claims.
“The new red zone,” he explains, “translates into approximately 400 businesses that will remain closed from Monday, 800 workers will stay at home. All this is happening in an important period like Easter. Campanian entrepreneurs, their employees and consequently their families, after having experienced a sad and bitter Christmas due to restrictions and lack of money, will also have to experience an Easter period of melancholy and anguish, with a thousand uncertainties about the future. Campania in the red will burn another 5 billion in turnover. On the compensation front, Campania cannot wait any longer for the timing of politics.”
Schiavo recalls that “we had worked with the Conte Government to quickly provide adequate compensation to all businesses, without the selection by Ateco codes. Draghi, however, with a stroke of the pen, cancelled everything. There is talk of reimbursements to businesses relating only to January and February 2021, fair and sacrosanct, but it is not enough. Businesses must receive the contribution of the lost turnover in 2020 compared to 2019, otherwise the South will die in Draghi's hands. They must stop making fun of businesses by setting increasingly stringent rules for access to compensation. From March 2020 to March 2021, those who do business in Campania had to comply with 532 provisions from the national government and about 500 from the Region and Municipality. It is pure madness”.
Schiavo concludes by emphasizing that "there are over 6 thousand companies in Campania that have lowered the shutters since the beginning of the Covid alarm and have not raised them again. Over 20 thousand people have lost their jobs since the first lockdown to date and have not yet found a new job. Today, there are 30 thousand companies in Campania in very serious difficulty; if they were not to be able to overcome the Covid crisis, they would put another 100 thousand workers on the street".
Article published on March 6, 2021 - 16pm
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