Orsini: "We need an industrial plan for the country, not electoral bribes"

There is no need for "electoral bribes". Today, with the construction site of the maneuver open, the choices cannot be conditioned by the approach of the vote: "Let's try to do things that serve the country", warns the president of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini, who closes the two days of discussion of the traditional Capri conference of Young Entrepreneurs by warning: we need measures with "a long-term industrial policy vision", "it is not possible to please everyone".

The pressure from industrialists is also still on Europe, with the energy cost emergency in the foreground, and issues such as "unfair competition from China" which put the European manufacturing system at risk. The leader of the industrialists was in Brussels on Wednesday for a series of institutional meetings, and says: "If before I was worried today I am even more so", there is "great shortsightedness". And he underlines: "The Europe we want is a Europe that has an industrial policy project. And I have seen nothing of industrial policy projects. Europe must wake up".

On energy, after the agreement in Europe on the bill decree, and on the issue of the ETS, "we are happy that the Government has been alongside us in this battle, we know how much President Giorgia Meloni has fought to bring relief to Italian companies". On the ETS "even more must be done".

It's a competitive issue. "Do we really want to destroy European industry?", warns Orsini who once again calls for "the suspension of the ETS" underlining its strong impact on costs for companies "in sectors such as paper, glass, ceramics". On the European budget, "it worries me a lot that Germany is asking for a cut of 400 billion on competitiveness, where today we instead need to put in to be competitive with the rest of the world".

Meanwhile in Italy there is the issue of the budget: "At this moment it is right to contain the accounts" but "it is important, given that we are in an election campaign, that we do things that are useful for the future, that we think about an industrial plan for the country", says the president of Confindustria: "Therefore, it is good to continue the super depreciation. Given that we have a productivity problem, we have asked to ensure that aggregations between small businesses can be supported fiscally. We have also asked, given that we know that the Pnrr has given a 0.5% of GDP this year, to continue, to make a new plan that can attract investments" by finding resources "from pension funds and private capital that are in current accounts that are not used today". "I believe that these measures must be put to the ground"; says Orsini: it is necessary "in any way to ensure that our companies can be more competitive".