Orsini: 'Italy needs a three-year plan. Increase wages? There is also country fiscal cost'

For growth, 'on the Italian side, I believe we need a change of pace here. We are approaching the budget law: we cannot keep chasing the changes of the previous budget law, we need to make an act of conscience here: we need an industrial plan for this country that has a three-year vision. Only in this way can we put growth at the centre'. So said Emanuele Orsini, president of Confindustria, speaking at 'Libertà', the FI party in Telese Terme.

Regarding Economy Minister Giorgetti's invitation to do his part by increasing wages, the Confindustria president said, 'we are doing a good job with the unions. We are among those who pay the best, we can do more and in fact we have proposed productivity contracts on which we are reasoning because that is the way and fight the pirate contracts that are polluting the labour market today'. "Yes, then afterwards we also have to make the comparison with other countries," he added, "of the country's tax cost on the pay packet net of the worker. Look objectively at the numbers'.

The competitiveness of companies also passes through energy costs. 'Energy is a fundamental quotient of competitiveness,' Orsini emphasised. We have done our homework, we have also found a balance between those who consume and those who produce, but today we need to quickly put those measures we have proposed on the ground because the cost of energy, going into winter, it goes without saying that being tied to gas will cost more, and if we want to be competitive and keep our companies within our country we need to immediately take a measure to contain the cost of energy'.

"I believe that in order to be able to launch and grow our country one of the first things is to remove the uncertainties that we have and also try to cancel these winds of war that are hovering in Europe, I think we are breathing a very heavy air and we must certainly lower the tones all - said Orsini - . On the subject of uncertainty, we see Trump's declarations on some sectors, even on furniture two days ago a 50 per cent tariffs, I believe that even on this we need certainty to make the country grow'..

"I think," Orsini said, "that the mistake we made from the previous European Commission, we have to tell ourselves, is not to have put European industry at the centre. It is not that we are saying that the green deal is madness or that the environment is madness: we are saying that with the exception of the object of being very close to the environment - and I remember that European and Italian industry is among the closest to the environment - but today we are still breathing the fact that Europe is not changing pace, we do not have a rhythm on the responses coming to us from other continents. We must act quickly,' he stressed. 'Well the omnibus, the press of awareness that mistakes have been made, but the problem cannot be solved in this way, but we need to act and act fast, because the others are going at a higher speed than ours and to grow we must put enterprise at the centre,' he added.