Compared to France and Germany, Italy is the country where expensive energy risks causing the greatest damage. Thus emerges from the latest estimates of the Confindustria Study Center according to which the increases in the prices of energy raw materials are particularly affecting European countries.
With unchanged policies, the incidence of energy costs on the total production costs for the Italian economy is estimated to reach 8.8% in 2022, more than double the corresponding French figure (3.9%) and almost a third more than the German one (6.8%).
By 2022 it is estimated that the incidence of energy costs could reach 8.0% of production costs for the Italian industry (from 4.0% in the pre-crisis period), compared to 7.2% for the German industry (from 4.0%) and 4.8% of the French one (from 3.9%). The impact for Italy translates into an estimated growth in the energy bill of between 5.7 and 6.8 billion on a monthly basis; for the manufacturing sector alone, the increase is estimated at around 2.3 – 2.6 billion per month.