SUMMARY OF PRESS CONFERENCE
"PRESENTATION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE OPERATING AND FINANCIAL
INITIATIVES OF PARLIAMENTARY POLITICAL
RADICALS TO FIGHT AND OVERCOME THE CRISIS"
Rome, Tuesday, June 22, 2010 , 11:30 am
ISAE INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
The ISAE is a public research body that carries out studies and analysis primarily to support the decisions of economic and social policy Government, Parliament and Public Administration. The surveys carried out, including through agreements and contracts with public and private surveys of businesses and households, macroeconomic forecasts, analysis and studies of national and international macro and micro economics of public finance. They also examined the economic policies of regulatory and environmental issues.
cuts on public research and independent control systems go against the trends in Europe and against common sense, against, in respect of the same surveys, a savings of only ISAE President's salary is slightly less than 200 thousand € per year. In addition, the decree provides for the transfer of staff Tremonti to ISAE MEF, thus invalidating any requirement of impartiality for a public body that should monitor and assess the economic policies of the government and make the overall analysis. The transfer of researchers and staff to ensure that MEF would make the shopping "useless, ineffective and inefficient, compared to the role of independence that is sought to research institutes" watchdog ", especially in such delicate times for the Italian economy / international and the government financial
The amendment goes to a radical "reduction" of the damage on one side and even to a "promotion" that would depend on the ISAE in 2011 by Parliament (the second to a proposal Baldassarri and a model much like the U.S. Congress Budget Office).
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