The defence of sectoral privileges, often intricate and deeply-rooted in our history, complicates the social dialogue necessary to address solutions commensurate to the needs of our societies in the long run. The first advantage of streamlining regimes is savings in administrative costs, as many of these institutionalised regimes duplicate work.
Since these administrative structures are the official dialogue partners, they have a vested interest in resisting administrative efficiency, even if the benefits of their regime would remain untouched. Italy started its pension reform with administrative unification back in the 90’s, while ensuing step-by-step harmonization of the benefits system is still on the way.