To the growth signals during 2024, mainly in food sector and of constructions driven by investments related to PNRR and with positive effects on the employment front, for 2025 forecasts based on caution due to the geopolitical scenario and the dear-energy which weighs above all on the predominant micro -enterprises in the territory.
This is reported in the course of the Incible Commission of the ABI CALABRIA Regional Commission in Reggio Calabria. Specifically, Maurizio Coppola (Head of Territorial and Private Sicily and Calabria Standard Directorate of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena) with resolution of the EXECUTIVE committee of the ABI was confirmed to the Presidency of ABI Calabria for the next two years.
“The economic activity of Calabria – said Coppola – Discount difficulties related to conditions of vulnerability on the infrastructure front, business culture overall and the insufficiency of qualified personnel. We must be able to stimulate every possible growth factor Especially in the agri -food, tourism and specialized productions, resorting to shared solutions in terms of labor and training policies; support for entrepreneurship; Innovation and research, subsidized finance“.
In particular:
- In a context of weak question of loans, the use of the Guarantee Fund for SMEs which in Calabria, at the end of 2024, recorded 3,776 questions accepted, activating over 736 million euros of new funding with particular reference to the wholesale and retail trade sectors; activities of catering services; specialized construction works; construction of buildings; agricultural crops and animal products; food industries; terrestrial transport and by conduct;
- The local banking world sees please, until the completion of the PNRRthe establishment of a Unique zes In Calabria, or an area where the regulations are simplified to accelerate the recovery. It would be an essential tool for combining productive and logistical development and imprising impulse to public and private investments.
The ABI CALABRIA Regional Commission
In addition to the president Maurizio Coppolamake up the Regional Commission CAterina Trentinella (Vice -President of ABI Calabria and Director of the Calabria Business Area of Intesa Sanpaolo); Antonella Amoroso (Banca Popolare di Puglia and Basilicata); Antonio Bajardi (BNL BNP Paribas); Marco Ceccobelli (IBL Banca); Ugo Lombardi (Banca Mediolanum); Nicola Paldino (Mediocates BCC); Vito Piccolo (Unicredit); Salvatore Pulignano (Bper Banca); Simona Ruffolo (BDM Banca).