Try to recover industrial production in January, but the annual budget remains negative. With 24 consecutive months of less sign. Crushed by the tonfish of motor vehicles, which come to touch a 40% collapse in twelve months.
And it is the automotive at the center of the new table at Mimit, where Minister Adolfo Urso together with the representatives of the supply chain and the unions takes stock of national and European policies. The goal of the government, remarks, is to secure companies and protect workers, for this reason “we encourage companies in the automotive supply chain to diversify and convert their activities to sectors with high growth potential, such as defense, aerospace, blue economy and cybersiculia”. Belings “in strong expansion and high profitability”, he underlines while saying stop to Ecobonus at national level, which will not be renewed, focusing on incentives at European level. It is a sector that of the car that is struggling with a much more extensive crisis.
Moreover, it is not only Italy that dealt with a critical framework, but also the main European competitors, Germany in the lead where BMW suffers from the car manufacturers who closes 2024 with a 37%, 7.7 billion. While the EU is dealing with weapons and duties, and the pressing from the opposition for the productive relaunch rises. Thus the Italian industrial activity, as indicated by the latest Istat data, begins the year by scoring an increase of 3.2% on last December and still a drop, albeit more contained, equal to 0.6% compared to a year before and after the negative peak of 6.9% reached at the end of 2024. It is a two -year -old wake: you have to go back until January 2023 to find a positive tendential sign. A performance that penalizes several sectors of Made in Italy, but they are always losing more cars and fashion.
The January data see the largest annual flexions in fact for the manufacture of means of transport (-13.1%) and the textile industries, clothing, skin and accessories (-12.3%). And worse is the motor vehicle sector: their production, where cars represent the prevalent part, records a 37% drop compared to a year before, while it increases by 10% compared to December 2024. But it is not enough to turn the page. “A Caporetto,” comments the National Consumer Union. A picture that pushes the opposition to the attack even more. “Two years of unstoppable decline, in front of which the Meloni government does not know what fish to take,”, the Economy Manager, Antonio Misiani, carries out from the Democratic Party. “Istat data confirm the collapse of the productive fabric, yet the premier and its government speak only of weapons,” says the group leader M5s in the Chamber, Riccardo Ricciardi.
The CGIL also focuses the finger at the “silence” of the executive and asks “immediately an assumption of responsibility” on the state of health of the country. Then there is the future of Stellantis. Urso highlights that with the Italian plan, the company has undertaken “a significant change of course. Unlike other European producers, it has ensured the stay in the production of all plants and employment levels “providing for investments of 2 billion for factories and 6 billion in purchases from Italian suppliers this year. The president of Stellantis, John Elkann, will surely talk about it next Wednesday in waiting audition scheduled in the Chamber. “Mimit will monitor the implementation of the plan and the commitments made,” assures the minister. On the possibility of conversion of automotive companies to other sectors among the metalworking unions there is the Fim-Cisl which sees “an opportunity” and not “compensation operations, that is, to close the car factories to make military operations”. The Fiom-Cgil more skeptical according to which “govern the transition does not mean going from the green to the military. It would be an absurd choice”. urgent »on social safety nets and energy cost.