Confindustria: expensive energy at risk of production stops, complex maneuver

"In this context, even of weak growth, companies are particularly suffering": the vice-president of Confindustria for energy, Aurelio Regina, raises "the cries of alarm that must be taken into serious consideration" for the impact of energy costs and warns: "We are really at risk of suspending production or in any case slowing down significantly".

Yesterday's data on the deficit is now also worrying due to the impact on the margins for action with the next budget.

The alarm of companies over energy costs "is a significant issue that goes hand in hand with the difficulties that the government has in having to face a complex budget maneuver", says Regina: "The latest data are naturally not encouraging: those two billion difference today do not allow us to recover from the infringement procedure, so they will make it difficult to find resources to dedicate".

"I believe that together - he continues, in a press conference at the Confindustria headquarters to present the October appointment with 'the colors of energy' in Brindisi - we must find the way to identify measures that can reconcile both the public budget and the situation of the industrial world, and that of the country in general, because naturally this situation also weighs on citizens, not just on businesses, reducing their purchasing power, reducing consumption. And this also impacts inflation". Regina also reiterates the appeal to politicians to ensure that the issue of energy is not a cause for conflict, "now don't enter the electoral campaign".

In the confrontation with politics, as well as in the confrontation between companies, as between producers and consumers of energy, "this is a season in which solutions are found together, they are found by truly trying to work with a common direction, without exaggerations of tone, but with the balance that the complexity of the moment requires".