We asked for a discussion today: companies have around two billion in super bonus credits. It is obvious that returning after ten years changes the balance sheets of companies. It is an issue of legal certainty, says the president of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini. More generally, the moment is complicated, so with a complicated moment you expect things, this is the truth, he says responding - on the sidelines of the Small Industry Forum - on the industrialists' expectations on the maneuver and on the confrontation with the Government.
We asked, he says, to continue with investments, because it is fundamental. We have demonstrated with hyper-depreciation, compared to two and a half billion from the State, companies have invested nine billion. So it's working. We asked to have it with an industrial plan that has a vision for 2029, because to do things we need a correct period of time.
We asked, he continues, to remove the bureaucracy: it is something we are doing together, there was also a very frank dialogue with the Prime Minister in the meeting that took place, we must continue in this direction. And together with bureaucracy, he adds, the other issue is that of energy. You understand that, with the component of unfair competition from China, these levels of energy costs are starting to be difficult to sustain.
When there is no legal certainty, if it fails, there is a risk that trust between businesses and institutions will fail, warns Orsini, who says from the stage: We have seen in recent days that the credits deriving from the super bonus are discounted at 10 years. We can't afford it. We can't afford it.
I don't defend the banking system, it defends itself, it doesn't need to be defended. But it's an issue that we companies have, they call me, they say: 'We have credits deriving from the super bonus in our belly, we've done the work, from morning to night we were told that we can discount that credit in 10 years instead of discounting it in 2027. It becomes a problem, because we relied on it. If we miss that window it becomes a problem that we cannot solve.
The leader of the industrialists underlines this: we need to sit down immediately and talk about it, because we risk putting businesses in difficulty, bringing businesses that have believed in the State and the institutions to their knees. We need to do something. We have a problem called expensive materials, it's a problem: we risk blocking construction sites, blocking contracts that are active, blocking and sending home people who are working because the cost of materials has increased, says the president of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini, from the stage of Confindustria's Small Industry Forum. We must take note of this and become aware of it, it is a theme: we risk blocking large construction sites, he warns.
Confindustria calls the General Assembly for 14 April in Bologna. It will be the fifth time in the history of Confindustria, after 1992 in Parma, 1995 in Rimini, 2011 in Bergamo. And 2018 in Verona, also in that case shortly before the political elections. 7 thousand entrepreneurs participated: this time, in 2027, at the Bologna event. We will be more, says the president of the industrialists, Emanuele Orsini.
In this complex scenario, it is very important that industry has its space, that it is also listened to by politics, that things are done together, warns the past president of Confindustria, Emma Marcegaglia, recalling the invitation to a pact with politics, for the growth of SMEs, launched yesterday by the president of Confindustria's Small Industry, Fausto Bianchi. We know well that we entrepreneurs must be those who bring growth forward, we must also be those who manage to ensure that there is resilience, a new social and economic balance. If in the past we were only asked to be competitive, strong companies that create jobs, today we also have the responsibility, with our actions, to help the country and help Europe to be more competitive and more resilient, he adds, speaking on the second day of the twenty-second Small Industry forum.
