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Meloni praises cooperation between the state and the regions

In a video message for the Festival of the Regions, Giorgia Meloni credited cooperation between the state and the autonomies with health advances including…

--- The context --- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sent a video message as the fifth edition of the Festival of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces drew to a close, greeting President Fedriga and the administrators gathered for the event and its closing sessions. --- The facts --- According to Meloni, the Constitution values the autonomies and most of the matters that most affect citizens' lives require full cooperation among all levels of government, as a concrete necessity rather than a formal choice for the country. She said that when the state, the Regions and the Autonomous Provinces work side by side, Italy can reach ambitious goals, and she cited the revision and implementation of the recovery plan, with Italy constantly first in Europe in financial progress and targets achieved, according to her account. On health, Meloni said some 1600 new facilities were made available between Community Houses and Community Hospitals, more than 3100 large cutting-edge machines such as mammography units and CT and MRI scanners, and 6000 new intensive and semi-intensive care beds for patients. --- The positions --- Meloni argued that the electronic health record reached unprecedented levels and that measures against waiting lists, with a national monitoring platform and integration of the CUP booking systems, delivered in the first 9 months of 2026 about two million more services than in the same period a year earlier. On cohesion policies, she said a deep reform and the Cohesion Agreements activated 60 billion euros of investment, within a total effort of 60 mobilized for works and infrastructure proposed by the territories themselves and shared with the central state. --- What remains unknown --- The message does not detail the territorial distribution of the facilities, machines and beds cited by Meloni, nor does it specify how the waiting list improvements are spread among regions with very different health realities and very different starting points across the country. --- Unanswered questions --- How many of the 1600 facilities cited by Meloni are already fully operational for patients today? How will the improvement in guaranteed waiting times be verified region by region across Italy? Which concrete works will the 60 billion euros attributed to the Cohesion Agreements finance, and on what timetable for completion? --- EPM analysis --- Meloni closed with her political lesson: when the state and the autonomies share goals and responsibility, she said, resources become opportunities and investment truly improves the lives of people and businesses, before thanking everyone for their work and collaboration throughout. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the message attributed to Meloni places institutional cooperation at the center and uses the health and cohesion record as proof of a governing method shared between the state and the autonomies. That reading carries weight because it links everyday rights to measurable results, although every figure cited by the prime minister will need to be checked against comparable official data and against the real experience of citizens in hospitals, waiting lists and territories in the coming months.
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