«For Confindustria, the obligation to vaccinate in the workplace and in the school is a duty, the green pass is mandatory. But it’s too easy to put the ball back in politics. There is a difference in position between the parties which is unlikely to lead us to a law. But we can update the security protocols. I am ready even today if the unions want to sit at a table. We are a community ». At the Rimini Meeting, the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi responded thus on the hot topic of vaccines, during his passionate speech that ranged from Covid to economic recovery, from the future of reforms to government measures that have the greatest impact on businesses.
The appeal to the trade unions on vaccines
For Bonomi “the unions made a big mistake, together with us we could build what our fathers built with polio.” On vaccines now «we have no time to waste. The situation is similar to the one we had with polio in the 1960s. A year of discussion cost 10,000 children. We are in the same situation. We have to sit down at a table, discuss. I’m ready. As intermediate bodies we have a great responsibility. Even in Confindustria perhaps not everyone agrees but I prefer one less associate but do what the country really needs “. «I was very perplexed – he warned – of the attitude of many social bodies. I was convinced that in the wake of what had been a dramatic moment – perhaps someone has forgotten the over 128,000 deaths in our country – we would sit at a table and keep the country together ».
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Political risk on reforms in the autumn
The president of Confindustria said he was worried about the possible effects of the political situation: «I fear that the government’s action will be stopped in the autumn and we cannot afford it. We have two important steps ahead: administrative in big cities and from 3 August the white semester. The distinctions of the parties have already begun. I am very concerned that the government’s action on reforms is being slowed down by a heterogeneous majority, ”he concludes. While Italy has before it “a historic opportunity if we want to create a modern, efficient and inclusive state”. Assuming that Confindustria “never gives judgments to the government but to individual measures,” he said he acknowledges Draghi “to have accelerated a fundamental vaccination campaign. Now carry out the reforms. Because, even if there is a recovery underway, “the country still has a long way to go”.
Paying more and better young people and women
In front of the audience of young people at the Meeting of Communion and Liberation, Bonomi underlined: «We must pay more and better young people and women. It is a cultural process that we must carry out to build the idea of a large and inclusive community ».
Business relocations, no punitive decrees
«We – explains Bonomi referring to the government decree currently in gestation against relocation – we have an interlocution with all the parties. Sorry that this country never takes note of reality. The country was held together by the manufacturing industry. In the other countries there would have been an act of respect for that sector, here no. Here Orlando and Todde (Minister of Labor and Deputy Minister for Economic Development, ed) think they can hit companies with a dl on the wave of the emotionality of two or three cases that have a very different origin and on which we must intervene. We are investing and your asset should be protected. It takes reciprocity. So, dear state, you owe me 58 billion? Give them to me. Didn’t you have to close 1,300 public enterprises? Why do not you do that? Because they are armchair factories ». Bonomi therefore invites the government to “work together to attract not to punish, instead there is always this punitive intent”.