Investments for industry, making the country “attractive” to keep young companies in Italy, “powerful” measures on the super and hyper amortization front and an industrial plan with a “three-year vision”.
These are some of the requests that Confindustria will put forward at the table with the government on Monday – in view of the budget maneuver that will be launched the following day – forcefully relaunched today by the leader of the industrialists, Emanuele Orsini, in front of the audience of Young Entrepreneurs gathered in Capri. A confrontation, that between industrialists and the executive, is even more awaited, given the tight deadlines, and after the failure to intervene, due to unforeseen commitments, of the Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, who was supposed to speak via video link at the fortieth conference of Young Entrepreneurs.
“I hope that the fact that Giorgetti is not here today is because he is working to build a solid measure and that he has a long-term vision,” said Orsini. “If the minister were here I would say: ‘Let’s sit down and think about the future of our country,’” he added. “I believe he loves our country and I believe that maintaining public finances is important,” he underlined. «But there is not only the rigor of the accounts», there is also the «good debt like that of the Zes, which has nevertheless generated jobs. That means making the country grow, but above all also an area like that of the South, because if it is stronger the whole of Italy is stronger”, he commented. As for the measure, the industrial leader observed, “it is obvious that there are 16 billion, so the blanket is short, but we need to valorise what generates income and distribution capacity, which comes from companies”. “You don’t make the country’s wealth with Irpef and pensions but by generating jobs and making the country competitive, so I hope that investments for industry are at the centre”, Orsini thundered again. «We need to ensure that our companies can make investments. For medium and small businesses we need automatic mechanisms, we like super and hyper depreciation, but it must be a powerful measure, because if we do things a bit like we did last year…”, continued the number one of Confindustria, underlining that “it is mandatory to have a three-year vision”.
And then, according to the leader of the industrialists, we must “give strength to the merit of young people”, to the proposal of the Youth Deal, a package of measures to reduce the fiscal, bureaucratic and administrative burden on young people under 35, launched here in Capri by the leader of the Youth of Confindustria, Maria Anghileri. «Hear the cry of the young industrialists. Our objective is to keep young companies here, a topic to be addressed in the budget law in the coming days, to make our country attractive” because, he highlighted, “Italian industry needs to renew its blood”.
The president of Confindustria also returned to the topic of the cost of energy. “We managed to construct a document and presented it to the Prime Minister” and on this “we expect a response quite quickly, because we are heading towards winter and the price of gas will rise, otherwise afterwards we will ask ourselves why companies are leaving”. Orsini therefore recognized the importance of having a stable government. «We don’t do politics, it’s not our job, but we share the fact that we need stable governments. For us it means having security for the country but above all to be able to build a trajectory and we need trajectories”, he explained. As for the dialogue with the unions, who yesterday asked the government to reduce taxes on contractual increases and a structural intervention to increase wages, Orsini invited everyone to do their part and called for a sense of responsibility regarding the strike as a tool which is a “fair right” but “is bad for families”. In Italy, he explained, there are «22 million workers, we represent 5.6 million of them. However, they are the ones we pay the best of all. We can do better, because we can do better. In fact, this is an issue that we are also addressing with the unions”, he added. However, he continued, “it is not just us who have to do our part, because we remember that our contracts are the ones that pay the redundancy fund”, unlike “the pirate contracts that are emerging”. Therefore, he concluded, «we do all our homework. Everyone does their part.”