ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Italy is fourth for tax pressure among advanced countries, but there are 575 tax measures that erode about 120 billion tax base. Let’s launch a proposal to the government and the social partners. We work together on these measures, some of which have lost their own reason of being or overlap each other. Let’s analyze them together. And we identify the 20 billion to relocate, without increasing debt: a third to growth, a third to health, a third to school”. Emanuele Orsini, president of Confindustria, spoke to the annual assembly, in the presence of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella and the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni.
“We do not accept deindustrialization as a destiny already written. We believe in Italy, where we stay and want to stay at work, produce together with our collaborators. We feel the responsibility to return to grow, strengthen our businesses and invest in research and innovation”, added Orsini.
“Today Italy and Europe must really be able to make courageous choices, because the moment of truth has come. There are choices of industrial policy, energy, governance, structure of public expenditure, industrial relations, to be done immediately, with rapid and effective measures”, he explained.
“The challenges we face require all of us a common, strong and shared sense of responsibility. A responsibility for institutions and political forces, business associations and trade unions: the whole society. Because if in Italy and Europe we will not be able to make a common effort, we will lose our industry, that is 15 percent of GDP and millions of jobs,” he said.
And on Europe: “We do not call for new European debt emissions to finance the current expenditure of states. Euro 1,200 billion a year is needed for European competitiveness. These cannot come either from the limited margins of the national budgets or from the common budget. The current 280 billion a year, to be divided between 27 countries, are figures that alone do not solve the problem. The common debt we demand is needed to finance strategic investments: energy infrastructure, nuclear, mobility, digital networks, artificial intelligence, research, mining of critical minerals, life sciences and defense. And only so can we face the dominant position reached by China.”.
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