“Why does Italian politics, all Italian politics no longer feel the need to listen to businesses? Because Italian politics is insensitive to the needs of those who drive the country “. This is the j’accuse launched by the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi at the Forza Italia convention underway in Rome.
Def, Bonomi: now we need strong structural interventions
«It is obvious – added the president of Confindustria – that we see the interventions that have been implemented by the government very positively, but they are cyclical interventions. What we are asking for are strong structural interventions if, as Minister Franco says, there is a budget constraint and therefore zero deviations, I believe that there are 900 billion annual public spending that can certainly be reconfigured ».
“Gas price ceiling feasible”
In the scenario of sanctions against Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, the hypothesis of a ceiling on the price of gas is feasible: “Italy does not have to wait for Europe, it can do it”. It is not true that if we put the roof on gas «nobody will sell it to us anymore. I am convinced – added Bonomi – that there are multi-year contracts at very low prices and so here the theme is not to tax extra profits, the theme is not to make extra profits in a period like this “
In Russia 447 companies and no one takes care of them
Sanctions against Russia are not discussed as a “political choice”. The problem is that «they are concentrated in certain sectors and therefore those companies in those sectors are particularly suffering. Let’s not forget our companies in Russia: we have 447 companies, over 11 billion in investments, 7.4 in turnover that no one is dealing with ».
“Pact for Italy? I hope it’s the right time
A reference also to the Pact for Italy launched in May 2020 and relaunched last year in the assembly, with Prime Minister Draghi who had collected the spirit “we hope that this is the right time for us to sit down at a table together and do something important for the country that is in great need of it right now “.