Cernobbio Forum: Intesa Sanpaolo reassures on MPS, Urso focuses on robotics and Mattarella calls for peace

The president of Intesa Sanpaolo, Gian Maria Gros-Pietro reassures the fears of local Tuscan authorities that with the Ca' de Sass takeover, MPS could lose its autonomy, brand and headquarters.

«This doesn't happen. If we look at our recent history, and see the attitude of the shareholders who were members of banks outside the group, now they are all very happy" to be part of Intesa Sanpaolo, underlines Gros-Pietro at the Cernobbio Forum. The shareholders who have entered Intesa Sanpaolo's capital in recent years "have better dividends and above all have a much more positive vision of their future".

«Italy's strength is innovation. And on this in the coming months we will accelerate especially on advanced robotics and humanoids, the new frontier of productivity. We've been working on it for a few months." Thus the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, speaking at a round table at the Forum.

«We intend to launch a package of measures that further incentivize innovation in industrial robotics and in the use of humanoids. It is important to accelerate this challenge to create a welfare system which, unlike the Chinese and American ones, keeps the person at the center of everything: not to free oneself from work, but from the fatigue of work."

«The current international context does not allow for delay. A clear path of action is needed so that methods of peaceful coexistence within the Community of States can return to prevail within a shared and respected legal and institutional framework." Thus the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, in his opening message sent to the Ambrosetti Forum, underway in Cernobbio.

«In the absence of this assumption – he warns – the very prospects of a prosperous world economy with constant and lasting growth are put to the test».