It is the Lombard exceptionality. There was a time when the first signs of a slowdown gave rise to social safety nets and states of crisis. Today our companies know how to anticipate crises, they are more flexible and quicker to change. It is the great maturity of our businesses.
But then what is the main problem of the Lombard industry?
Find jobs. In some provinces we have broken the psychological threshold of unemployment at 3%, in Brescia (2.7%) and Bergamo (2.8%). Furthermore, 34% of the 2023 new hires are in Green Jobs: we are already implementing the green transition.
However, it remains essential to attract investments, including from abroad.
We are working on a plan that starts from the inactive areas. We want to try to be selective: attract stable investments. We start from mapping the ecosystem and look for investments to fill a gap in a supply chain or to add value, with strategic planning, which is what a Region must do, coordinating the territories.