In the morning of today, the assembly of Assolombarda and that of the Neapolitan Confindustria were held. Opportunities for discussions between entrepreneurs and institutions on the problems of the economy and on the projects to be implemented, the assemblies were also a platform for the newly elected first citizens of the two cities, who were able to insert the requests of the companies into their agenda .
In Milan it was the mayor himself who took the floor, prefiguring a great alliance between the administration and entrepreneurs to relaunch the municipality of Milan. Pisapia claimed that she strongly believes in dialogue with the world of associations and that she wants to work side by side with companies. “Assolombarda is a serious interlocutor with whom we want to discuss development and employment, but also on the defense of legality, merit, the environment and competition. The priorities around which our action must be concentrated are bureaucratic simplification and fiscal federalism”.
The president of Assolombarda, Alberto Meomartini, said he was reassured by the climate of cohesion that he was able to notice in the interventions of the various political forces. The results of Lombardy's medium-sized enterprises, especially as regards exports, have instilled optimism in the president. He accepted Pisapia's support on legality and underlined the role of young people for growth, stating that training in Lombardy is of a good standard, emphasizing the need to open up to the international job market. He also recalled the tendency of young Italians, endowed with qualified preparation, to go abroad and the difficulty of our market, weighed down by the bureaucratic lengths of attracting a qualified foreign workforce. Meomartini then addressed an invitation to the unions to make an effort to think about a new world of work, identifying Lombardy as the best ground for innovative structures. “The first concern of multinationals investing in Italy is not the taxman, but the lack of a simple, stable and clear system of rules”.
Emma Marcegaglia has urged the need to make new spending cuts even at the cost of unpopular measures. You then condemned the linear cuts that kill the economy, hoping for targeted choices. "A new tax reform that really lowers taxes is needed, not the three-card game we have witnessed so far: the reform must reward the categories that support the economy of this country, employees and businesses". The president of Confindustria then underlined that we must insist on company contracts through a mechanism of collectability. The challenge for Italian companies is that of internationalization and expansion.
The president of the province of Milan, Guido Podestà, the president of Lombardy, Roberto Formigon and the minister of economic development, Paolo Romani, also took the microphone.
Under the attention of Luigi de Magistris and the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, entrepreneurs from Naples met in Pozzuoli to discuss problems and prospects for the South. What emerges from the comparison is a picture full of critical points, but also of the desire to roll up one's sleeves to arrive at a solution. Entrepreneurs from Campania are aware of the enormous difficulties and the extreme need for a relaunch, which passes through the resolution of the structural problems of the South. Speakers in the debate were Stefano Caldoro, president of the Campania region, Raffaele Lombardo, president of the Sicily region, Marco Vitale and Paul Scaroni. En's managing director stated: "It is impossible to think of growth for Italy without going through a development of the South. The South is the largest undeveloped area of the Eurozone, Italy is immobile because a third of the territory does not advance". Scaroni announced that Eni wants to do its part by recalling the growing investments that have been made in the country in recent years. “The characteristic of our projects has been the involvement of the social partners and the fact that we have invested where there was a desire to do more and better on the part of the workers. Absenteeism is a vital problem - added the manager addressing the President of the Republic -. Let's bring the absenteeism of the South to the levels of Northern Europe and we will see that investments and growth will return”.
