Orsini: 'Eight billion over three years requested for manoeuvre'
On the sidelines of the joint assembly of Confindustria Verona and Confindustria Vicenza, the leader of the industrialists once again called for a long-term industrial plan
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"Today we have asked for 8 billion for the next three years. We are talking it over, let's see, because even today the spending chapters are not clear," On the sidelines of the joint assembly of Confindustria Verona and Confindustria Vicenza being held in Gambellara (Vicenza), Confindustria president Emanuele Orsini returned to talk about the manoeuvre. "We are examining it, interlocution is open, what we have been asking for months is that there be a real industrial plan that has a three-year vision," clarified the number one of Viale dell'Astronomia.
Orsini: three measures needed
According to the leader of the industrialists, 'three measures are needed: a measure to help medium and small companies, so automatic incentives, model 4.0, 5.0 to do better maintenance, make better, enlarge their companies'. Furthermore, 'for the big ones we need the development contract with a new measure of incentives, because the way it is built today it cannot be'. Finally, it is necessary 'to maintain growth in the south because we also need a south that works like the north'.
Urso: confrontation with Mef on Confindustria's objective
Mr. Orsini's request was then answered by the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, on the sidelines of the assembly: 'We are talking with the Minister of the Economy so that, in addition to the extra Pnrr resources that we have directed, there will be national resources in the budget that can enable us to achieve this absolutely legitimate objective that Confindustria has set us. Urso then explained that this 'will be associated with an industrial plan, a Made in Italy 2030 white paper, which we will present in the coming weeks and which will outline our country's industrial policy for the next five years, because there is a need for a continuous and lasting industrial policy with objectives shared by the social partners'. We are working, he added, 'also with President Orsini, with whom I meet almost every day, to identify the best tool that can incentivise innovation for small and medium-sized Italian companies, inheriting what has been done so far by Transition 5.0 and Industry 4.0'.
The passage on the strike: 'Sacrosanct right, but stopping hurts the country'
Orsini went on to comment on the general strike called yesterday in support of the Flotilla: 'I believe that the right to demonstrate is sacrosanct, let alone the right to demonstrate. Maybe I also agree with why it is being done but at a time like this, where we need this country to be productive, to stop means hurting the country, but also hurting Italian families. Then demonstrations can never result in violence because for us violence can never be part of a contradiction'.
Industrial leader: we need certainty at a time of uncertainty
The industrialist leader's reflections came, as mentioned, on the sidelines of the joint assembly of Confindustria Verona and Confindustria Vicenza in Gambellara (Vicenza), the title of which was 'The New Industry in World Chaos' promoted by Orsini. "I believe that a better title than this could not have been chosen for two territories that are so important for Italy, for the fact that in any case at an international geopolitical moment of full uncertainties we need certainties. Uncertainties, he added, 'are fought with certainties, so we are saying it in every way: we need Italy and Europe to adopt an industrial plan that at least has a three-year vision, because only in that way do we have an awareness of where we want to go'.
