(Finance) – “I expect, and hope, that given the reduced trends in inflation within 48 hours the ECB will make another non-negligible cut, which would bring it further ahead of the US and non-euro European currencies, giving great hope not only in the single currency, but also to families and countries to make investments”. Antonio Patuelli, president of Abi, said this while speaking at a conference in Florence on Luigi Einaudi. “In two years – he added – inflation has been brought down without much collaboration from national states, which have not reduced their public debt: if there had been signs as early as 2022 of a reduction in the public debts of Italy, France, Germany, and also others, inflationary expectations would have been further reduced. The ECB did everything.”
“Banks are never the first to close, to pull down the shutters, they are normally among the last. But if others close it, it is difficult for only the banks to keep it open”https://www.Finance.it/DettaglioNews /163_2024-10-15_TLB/.”To combat the exit of banks from smaller localities – said Patuelli – we need to support other productive sectors. Policies must be developed by European and national institutions to encourage economic activities in smaller localities. This is the point. When the shops close in the towns, the population drops, it is unlikely that the bank will be the only business that remains, especially if the population drops shout about desertification”https://www.Finance.it/DettaglioNews/163_2024-10-15_TLB/.”We need a broader and more in-depth analysis, studying the flows of inhabitants. The inhabitants in Florence in 1964 were 150 thousand fewer today, to give an example. We need to support with policies European and national presence of economic activities in the so-called disadvantaged places, which are those not served by large means of transport”concluded Patuelli.
On the hypothesis of contributions requested from banks in the budget law: “The dialogue in these weeks, in these days, in these hours is by the Abi and by myself delegated to the general management of Abi, and therefore first of all to the general director Rottigni” .