Almost three years after the settlement of the Meloni government, Calabria also has its own “minister”. The formal appointment is not there, but the one sewn on Luigi Sbarra, the former general secretary of the CISL, looks very like a brand new dicastery. To the unionist originally from Pazzano, already Undersecretary at Palazzo Chigi, the Department for the South is entrusted, with an imposing staff and strategic delegations to manage European funds.
The political move that has the endorsement of Premier Giorgia Meloni is all enclosed in an amendment to the land decree of fires approved yesterday in the Senate room. Sbarra will have the coordination of the special economic area (Single Zes), or the large structure that coordinates the cohesion funds for the South and the tax relief aimed at facilitating investments in the Southern regions as well as Umbria and Marche. This completes the insertion of the former leader of the white union in the center -right executive.
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