No more easy recipes to get out of the crisis, "it's time for analysis and understanding". This is the message that Pietro Modiano, president of Nomisma, wanted to launch from Bologna, on the occasion of the conference "Towards a new world equilibrium", promoted to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the study centre. “What we suffer from – Modiano said – is a lack of collective understanding of reality, because times are extremely complex and a synthesis appears, at first sight, impossible. We need to find places for analysis and moments for reflection, Nomisma is available to give its contribution. Italy is a manufacturing country, with good export performance and 2030 prospects for pensions better than the others. Let's try to start from here."
A contribution to the analysis came from Alessandro Pansa, general manager of Finmeccanica, according to whom Italy finds itself in a difficult situation because it is no longer in step with contemporary technological paradigms and must accept that it has become marginal in important fields such as electronics, telephony, information technology, automobiles, nuclear power, chemistry and pharmaceuticals. “However – he added – sectors remain such as energy, major works, defence, aeronautics and space, the railway and agricultural system”. But it is the future that needs to be imagined and on the basis of this effort to understand it will be necessary to invest public money in research and technology where there will be more demand: "for example in agriculture or health care", in a world that will have more and more mouths to feed and the elderly to take care of.
For Marcello De Cecco, a professor at the Scuola Normale in Pisa, the most worrying signs today come from the global economic picture: “China slows down by a few points, the United States is stuck at 2% and the Bric also seems to be declining. Europe is a collection of exporting countries and cannot recover in an economic context like this, because it cannot stand alone”. This poses problems of perspective and directly challenges high politics which unfortunately, in recent years, has not given much proof of itself. At the origin of the critical situation of the euro, according to De Cecco, there is also the "political mediocrity" of two leaders such as Merkel and Sarkozy. The hope for a better future therefore lies in a desirable change at the top of these two important European countries.
