First: a call to responsibility because the government “must go ahead” to complete the many dossiers still on the table. From the answers on the tax wedge to new measures to calm energy costs and inflation, from the expensive raw materials, which ballast the calls and projects connected to the NRP, to the approval of the budget law “because going into provisional operation would be a misfortune “. Second: the Pact for exports, after 2 years from its birth and 7.2 billion allocated, “is still relevant because it was designed to be updated according to the change of context”.
From the stage of the pre-summit “Made in Italy: Driving Innovation, Sustainability and Resilience”, organized by Sole 24 Ore and the Financial Times in collaboration with Sky Tg24, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, interviewed by director of the Sole 24 Ore, Fabio Tamburini, sends a message to the government majority, shaken by the latest fibrillations, and traces a detailed examination of the health of the made in Italy. The change of pace, explains the owner of the Farnesina at the conclusion of the live broadcast of the event, which was followed by 9,300 users and which opened with greetings from Tamburini, Ben Hall, Europe Editor Financial Times, and Giuseppe De Bellis, director of Sky Tg24, goes through that 2020 Pact, born on the minister’s input. And whose success is also written in the numbers that Di Maio lists: “In 2021 we broke the absolute export record with 516 billion euros and also in the first months of 2022 the data are very positive”.
The “machine”, therefore, continues to run at full throttle and “if Made in Italy reacts first of all – explains di Maio – it is because we create a system like Italy”, but also due to a combination that the minister connects to the “great business resilience », to the« significant demand for Made in Italy abroad »and to the construction« of tools that work in the Pact for exports ». And that range from the Simest Fund 394 to the ICE calls, from the “rebranding” campaign on made in Italy to the latest paths developed to make entrepreneurs aware of the opportunities of the Recover Plans of other EU countries.
In short, an all-encompassing work that now intersects with the further challenges posed by the ongoing energy crisis and the conflict in Ukraine. And here the minister reiterates the need to continue working in Europe because “we must win the battle over the price cap”, the gas price ceiling, a necessary junction to stabilize inflation and to bring gas prices back – whose values to the stars incorporate the thrust of financial speculation, Di Maio insists – on sustainable levels.
Of course, the minister highlights, the government has already done a lot, putting on the plate in just 6 months 30 billion of measures to give businesses and families their breath, accelerating energy diversification to progressively cut the umbilical cord with Moscow and working, with the Farnesina in front line, alongside companies to identify alternative channels for procurement with respect to the territories affected by the war. But it is clear that the challenge must also be played in Europe. And in Brussels, with an eye above all to attempts at acceleration, particularly in the automotive sector, to achieve carbon neutrality, Di Maio asks for the right balance “between development and progress of our production system”. Which means combining, he explains, “the ecological transition with technological neutrality” without too abrupt leaps forward.