«To seize new development opportunities, to attract new investments, to generate new businesses and jobs we must continue to invest in what generates value: infrastructure, training, the contextual conditions to make this territory, again like a century ago , a good place to do business and work.” In the concluding words of his speech, Mario Spanò reiterated the watchwords of Confindustria Crotone. In the audience at the Alkmeon Dental School, among others, local administrators, union leaders and representatives of other employers’ associations were sitting and listening to him.
The Auditorium of the Calabro Dental complex of the Marrelli Group yesterday hosted the event organized to celebrate thirty years of the association of Crotone industrialists. Confindustria accompanied the complex and traumatic phase of the city’s deindustrialization for three decades. Spanò recalled this (“thirty-one years ago Crotone was experiencing the beginning of a process of deindustrialization, which would have had a very strong negative impact on the local economy, on local businesses and on employment”), who spoke after the speech by video link by the Minister of the Environment Gilberto Pichetto Fratin and institutional greetings from the mayor of Crotone Vincenzo Voce and the president of the Province Sergio Ferrari.
The minister, introduced by the moderators of the event – the Sky Tg 24 journalist Ketty Riga and the director of Esperia TV Salvatore Audia – did not talk about reclamation, as perhaps many expected, but focused on the issues of ecological and energy transition, underlining the importance of Southern Italy as a hub for the production of clean energy: from photovoltaic to hydrogen, to the sun.
