Gianfelice Rocca wanted to pass the baton of the largest Confindustria association into the gilded red velvet frame of the Scala to underline that the organizational unity achieved with the companies of Monza and Brianza did not give via Pantano any hegemony other than that of a rediscovered strength, capable to affect both the problems of the North and the destinies of viale dell'Astronomia, which has never been so opaque, tarnished and of little weight as in these times. Those who attended Monday's meeting were able to mark the novelty of his successor.
Carlo Bonomi in his greeting address to the audience of colleagues, he placed two firm points of his demanding programme: points on which he summoned the strength and determination of the more than 8000 member companies.
The first. The new President has announced his intention to aggregate the territorial confindustria in the North to force Confindustria into a non-formal consultation on the more delicate issues of development and enlargement of the production base. It is not new if behind Bonomi's project there was new oxygen for the regional federations as we have known them in recent decades: bodies without real power, capable of producing some results only on delegation of the strongest territorial but held with limited sovereignty, useful for sticking a presidential badge to the businessman on duty called to hold that office. In Veneto, then, once a year, the social-television stage of the Campiello Prize is added to the business card.
There was a time (between 1994 and 1995) that the Presidents of the regional federations of the North (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna) in absolute silence they made a pact to guarantee one of them a non-honorary presence at the top of Confindustria. Thus it was that a unitary document and a strong candidacy led Guidalberto Guidi to the Vice-Presidency. This surprised and did not please the associative bureaucracies of some territories which, statutes in hand, firmly took over the destinies (especially economic) of the regional bodies in their own reins. More than elsewhere in Lombardy.
Today, from Assolombarda, the novelty of a concrete project is officially starting to give life to a consultation extended to all the associates of the entire North in order to establish, without organizational and bureaucratic frills, a level of consultation and pressure that will only do good to companies and to Confindustria itself.
The second challenge is the one addressed to future of Il Sole 24 Ore. Carlo Bonomi didn't dwell on the well-known and delicate financial situation of the newspaper and on the absolute need to inject no less than 80 million euros into the publishing house. The new President has not taken any accusatory attitude on the disasters accumulated by Boards of Directors disputed for a long time by more or less à la page entrepreneurs. No charges. No process (at least for now). But a clear will to declare the willingness to intervene by putting his hand in his wallet.. "if called".
At that moment with the availability of the safe in via Pantano we will be able to do the math and put the new structures on paper of the newspaper. Numerous applause from the audience and from the boxes of La Scala. The president of Confindustria Vincenzo Boccia is impenetrable and pale. Calm and satisfied Giorgio Fossa who for months has been weaving the web to restore tranquility and authority to the Sole 24 Ore.
