The 1000 new schools under construction in Italy (31 Calabrian ones) will be completed and “saved”, whose works have been stopped for over 5 years. The government, with the ministers Valditara and Giorgetti, issued the decree, which refinance these works. The leader of the Civil Rights Movement, Franco Corbelli, in a note, expressing “satisfaction for the extraordinary result obtained, after 4 years of uninterrupted commitment, which will be completed is saved ‘the almost 1000 new schools under construction in Italy (31 those Calabrians), whose works have been stopped for over 5 years, due to pandemic and missed interventions of the previous ones, last governments. In fact, in recent months, he has been issued – he writes – exactly on June 16, 2025, the appropriate decree, which refinance these works (whose initial mutuals had expired, since the works completed in the scheduled times), not the joint signature of the ministers of education and merit, Giuseppe Valditara, and of the economy and finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti. Decree that had the green light, the opinion of legitimacy, last July, precisely on 8 July, of the Court of Auditors and which was then published, a week later, on July 15, on the website of the Ministry of Education and merit, says Corbelli “.
»With this decree – he adds – the Government authorizes the regions to use, through the signing of mortgages, of the residual multi -year contributions provided for by article 10 of the decree -law 12 September 2013. Therefore an important problem of school construction and not simple safety is solved, very complex that had seen all these 1000 new schools in Italy, with work stopped for over 5 years. This is because not being the same ultimate in the scheduled time had in fact lost the initial funding. For these schools, anti -seismic consolidation interventions were foreseen and in many cases, even the new construction. To have an idea of the gravity of the current situation and on the other hand of the importance and urgency of these new schools, just see the alarming numbers of the XXV Report of Legambiente Ecosystem School 2025. The data collected refer to 2024. It appears that only 47% of the schools have a certificate of usability, only 45% have the static test and less than 15% of the buildings located in a seismic area were designed or adequate or adequate recent anti -seismic regulations. To this should be added that most of the school buildings were built before 1974, the year that sees the entry into force of the first anti -seismic rules “.
Corbelli recalls that “these 1000 new schools had been financed thanks to the MIUR-MEF decree, published in the Official Gazette on February 1, 2019, with which the regions were authorized to enter into mortgages for 1.55 billion euros with the European investment bank (Bei) and with the development bank of the Council of Europe. Work began and then remained still for years – says Corbelli – for the arrival in 2020 of the pandemic and for the delays and missed interventions of the previous executives. And starting from that blockade of construction sites that 4 years ago, in December 2021, he began, with the support of the Calabria Region, the long and uninterrupted campaign of civil rights. Today I can say that I consider this battle, among the innumerable, which I have done in over 30 years, among the most important and tiring, a great, historic victory. I thought, while the years passed and the situation did not unlock, that I could not succeed in this company that I consider an important civil conquest for the whole country. Because these over 900 schools are distributed in all regions ».
“I thank the two ministers Valditara and Giorgetti, – says Corbelli – like the entire executive Meloni and the Calabria Region, for this difficult and fundamental battle, which has concerned all the almost 1000 new incomplete schools in Italy, and which has started, I want to remember it, in Calabria, starting from the elementary school of my small country, Sartano (CS), demolished, because it is dangerous, 5 years ago (beginning of 2020), financed and financed. reconstructed for the arrival of the pandemic and for the other causes (delays, etc.) first exposed. Today, as I will say in a short video that I will publish on FB, I am satisfied – continues Corbelli – but I can’t say I am happy, as I would like, because I think of the unfortunate children of Gaza, Ukraine and many other countries in the world who continue to be killed, to die under bombs and hunger, and who will never have a school, nor, unfortunately, a future. Their thought, for me a reason for suffering, mitigates, almost erases my joy of today! The satisfaction remains for what we managed to obtain that it will surely serve, with new, modern and safe schools, to avoid some tragedy in the future ».