COIN DOCTORS, FIERY CONTROVERSY AFTER THE DEATH OF A GIRL

November 9, 2024

The press review of the main news and events in Veneto in the week from 3 to 9 November

HEALTH

Friday 8 November

Free doctors, fiery controversy after the death of a girl
Controversy and tension over the use of on-call doctors in the emergency and emergency sector, including emergency rooms, after a ‘coin doctor’ was accused of not having attempted to resuscitate a 14-year-old girl hit by a car last 28 October on the Brenta Riviera. The girl later died. The doctor’s main job is that of a general practitioner in Sedico (Belluno) and has an on-call contract for emergencies with Ulss Euganea through the CMP Global company of Granarolo (Bologna). The doctor was suspended, while the Region was accused by opposition political forces of not doing enough to address the shortage of doctors and of operating mainly according to criteria of cost-effectiveness and not of service coverage.

THE AUTOMOTIVE CRISIS

Sunday 3 November

Car in great trouble. The issues have come to a head
«The issues have come home to roost». Gianluca Di Loreto, head of automotive Italy for “Bain & Company”, one of the most important business consultancy firms, doesn’t beat around the bush too much. The car situation in Europe and even more so in Italy is serious. And from January 2025, with the entry into force of the new EU regulation which provides for the drastic reduction of carbon dioxide emissions for cars (maximum 94 grams of CO2), the effects on the automotive world will be evident. And politicians will be called upon to make heart-shaking decisions that will mark the fate of the sector for the next 10 years. (Padua Morning)

SOCIETY

Wednesday 6 November

Veneto, region of emigrants 500 thousand registered with the Aire
The only Italy that is growing is that of expats: since 2020 the country has lost around 652 thousand residents, while the community of those who have decided to go and live outside the national borders has grown, which today numbers over six million people. Veneto is on the podium, if we look at the regions with the most members of the Aire, the registry of Italians residing abroad: on the first step we find Sicily, with +826 thousand members, followed by Lombardy (+641 thousand) and indeed from Veneto (+563 thousand). These are the data published in the latest report by the Migrantes Foundation on “Italians in the World”. (Padua Morning)

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Tuesday 5 November

Faleschini’s rise from baseball caps to high fashion palaces
Can a sixteen-year-old Venetian from Pianiga, with a passion for baseball hats, grow up to buy the historic Rosapetra hotel in Cortina (in 2022) and two historic buildings in high fashion Milan, Palazzo Krizia in 2021 and Palazzo Acerbi last week? This is what happened to Manuel Faleschini, born in 1978, and founder of Waycap, a company based in Mirano with a turnover of 36 million in 2023, 230 employees and customers among the most important high fashion houses in the world. Maison that creates many of their hat collections in Mirano. (Morning of Padua).

Sunday 3 November

The new businesses are almost exclusively foreign
Even in Veneto, only foreigners are left to start a business. Or almost. In the last 10 years, active businesses led by owners born abroad have increased by 25.9 percent (in absolute value equal to +10,010), while those headed by an Italian have decreased by 7. 5 percent (-30,311). Of the 421,977 active companies present in Veneto, 48,684 (equal to 11.5 percent of the regional total) are foreign-run. (Il Gazzettino)

ECONOMY

Wednesday 6 November

Redundancy fund growing strongly in Belluno and Treviso
A boom in layoffs: Cisl Belluno-Treviso does not mince words when looking at the trend in the territory it covers. The data is processed by the Study Center: in the first nine months of the year, in both provinces, almost the same amount of hours was authorized as in the whole of 2023, more than 12 million in Treviso and more than 4 million in Belluno. The peak in September and, in the case of Belluno, also in February. Various sectors in difficulty Overall, the sectors most in difficulty are textiles, chemicals, rubber and plastic materials, mechanics. In particular, the difficulties of the fashion and automotive systems are weighing heavily. (Rai TGR Veneto)

In Verona the 126th Fieracavalli
The President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, inaugurated the 126th edition of Fieracavalli, the international reference exhibition for the world of equestrian and horse racing, scheduled at Veronafiere in Verona. The fair expects the participation of 140,000 visitors including enthusiasts, athletes, operators and foreign buyers, as well as over 2,200 horses belonging to 60 different breeds, spread over an area of ​​128,000 square meters divided into 12 pavilions and 6 external areas. (Radio Veneto 24)

Tuesday 5 November

Wine: record revenues in Veneto but margins remain among the lowest
Wine, the Veneto companies (144 surveyed) lead by far the revenue ranking in Italy with 4.77 billion last year (+ 28% on 2019 but – 0.12% on 2022) and a gross margin, however, only of 7.52% and slips to 17th place in Italy. Behind in terms of turnover are Emilia Romagna and Tuscany, which have decidedly higher margins than those of Veneto: over 21%, an increase in 2022. In the report published by Corriere Vinicolo, the companies from Friuli Venezia Giulia are placed tenth in Italy with 315.5 million in revenues (30 companies surveyed, -2.46% revenues in 2022, +21.4% in 2019) and a EBITDA of over 12%. A good result but inflated by inflation which has been rising steadily in recent years.

CULTURE

Tuesday 5 November

Caterina Barbieri directs the Biennale Musica
Caterina Barbieri is the new artistic director of the Music sector of the Venice Biennale for the two-year period 2025-2026. The appointment was approved by the Board of Directors of the Biennale, chaired by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco. Born in Bologna in 1990, Caterina Barbieri is an Italian musician and composer living in Berlin, established in the field of electroacoustic music. (Rai TGR Veneto)

CLIMATE

Thursday 7 November

In Veneto the wettest October of the last 30 years
In October it rained like it hadn’t happened for thirty years. Word of the Arpav, the regional agency for prevention and environmental protection of the Veneto, which yesterday released its weather bulletin with the data for the month just ended. «This year the month of October is very rainy at a regional level, the wettest in the last thirty years and very close to the historical records of the Arpav series», we read in the document. The absolute record is that of 1992, which saw a very rainy October. But 2024 was no different. Especially in the Prealps and the southern Dolomites, where in some locations cumulative rainfall exceeded 500 mm. The peak was recorded in Valpore di Seren del Grappa, at 1,271 meters above sea level, where 743 mm were recorded. (Padua Morning)

POLITICS

Monday 4 November

Maneuver, cuts to the Municipalities for 100 million
In the long term, the slimming treatment imposed on local authorities will have a rather heavy impact: 4 billion euros in the three-year period. And, in 2025 alone, 140 million will be paid by Municipalities, Provinces and Metropolitan Cities, which will increase to 290 million from 2026 to 2028 and to 490 million in 2029. For the Municipalities alone there are one billion three hundred million in cuts (100 million of which in the Triveneto, of which 80% in Veneto). With Padua and Verona being the municipalities most affected by the cuts. Which are added to the already very heavy ones from last year, and which cannot be considered compensated by the 100 million for the reception of minors and by the partial contribution for the vertical compensation of the equalization, which will benefit only a part of the municipalities and will not compensate however the equalization costs. (Padua Morning)

Sunday 3 November

Conte-Stefani, Salvini’s two-man squad for after Zaia
Perhaps Luca Zaia will be able to reach the twenty-year mark, nipping in the bud any desire for succession in the coalition. More realistically, Parliament’s hostility to the third term will force the president with the most votes in the history of regionalism to give up in 2025, triggering a political equation with two unknowns. Will Brothers of Italy, with a large majority at the polls, give up competing for the flag with their ally? And if so, who will be the League’s candidate? In this regard, the squad imagined by Matteo Salvini includes, in a prominent position, two Po Valley horses: the Paduan deputy Alberto Stefani, regional secretary of the party, recently risen to the top of via Bellerio; and Mario Conte, the popular mayor of Treviso who chairs the Anci of Veneto. These are not rumors or conjectures. The deputy prime minister himself communicated this to those directly involved during confidential conversations. The circumstance threatens to rekindle rivalries and tensions but the emerging couple, at least for the moment, seems to favor confrontation over dueling, so much so that they have started an intense long-distance dialogue. (Padua Morning)