GDP Italy 2021, Cottarelli: “It could grow by up to 5%”

In 2021 “I believe that GDP will grow more than what the IMF says and maybe even what the government says. I think it can go as high as 5%. And next year could also be a favorable year”. Thus the economist Carlo Cottarelli, president of the Observatory on Italian public accounts, over the course of ‘half an hour more’. “I am pessimistic – he said – for the medium term, when interest rates begin to rise”. As for deaths at work, Cottarelli says, “they are also increasing compared to the average of previous years”. “We have a higher than average number in Western Europe, which is three times that of Germany. Something can be done, but in Italy we often don’t respect the rules, as we also see with evasion or open landfills – he concludes. -. We have the rules but they are not respected “.