Meloni hails Crosetto's machete to red tape remark

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Thursday hailed Defence Minister Guido's Crosetto's vow that the government will take a machete to break the chains of red tape strangling start-ups in Italy.
    She said the government was now "strong enough" ti implement deep changes to Italian bureaucracy to make the country more attractive to foreign businesses while also stocking domestic growth.
    Crosetto on Wednesday blasted nay-saying bureaucrats saying they stood in the way of business start-ups and the modernization of the Italian economy which is one of the key aims of the massive post-COVID EU-funded National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).
    Crosetto said he would take a machete to the chains of red tape that bind the Italian economy and slow down its development.
    He said the completion time for public works in Italy must be cut from the present average of 17 years to just four or five.
    "A public work now takes 17 years, it will have to become four or five," Crosetto told Rome-based Il Messaggero newspaper.
    "And with courage one will have to use the machete with the chains that block the development of Italy." (ANSA).