ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “We have said this since the beginning, with responsibility and without infinity: the epicentre of the crisis is in Brussels, in the follies of the Green Deal that put the European automotive industry on its knees, favouring technology and Chinese production. Today the facts show they were right. It is not only Volkswagen in grave difficulty: the crisis is investing the main European manufacturers and is likely to overwhelm the entire industrial chain of the continent.” This is what the Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, said. Adolfo Urso, during the automotive table at Mimit.
The Minister therefore recalled the recent study of the Boston Consulting Group, according to which production overcapacity of more than 5 million vehicles is recorded in Europe, equivalent to more than 35 plants, more than one third of the approximately 90 existing ones. “There is no longer time to lose: 2026 must be the year of European reforms. If we do not intervene immediately, the transition will turn into deindustrialization”, he added.
“We were the first to open the yard of European reforms when many still denied the problem. Italy has had courage. We even recognized Renault’s French CEO who said it was ‘the responsible and pragmatic Italian approach that indicated the way of reforms in Europe’. And another French newspaper said ‘Italy today inspires Europe. It is the path of the European Industrial Renaissance. Almost two years ago, together with the Czech Republic, we presented in Brussels a non-paper on the sector and managed to obtain the postponement of the super fines and anticipate the revision of the CO2 regulation. But it is not enough: the principle of technological neutrality must be fully recognized and we must anticipate the implementation of the Industrial Accelerator Act: we cannot wait on 2029 to introduce the requirements Made in Europe and Low carbon”.
“With the new DPCM on automotives, we have marked a clear turning point over the past, overcoming a season of fragmented and uneffective incentives, which too often supported the purchase of vehicles produced abroad, with a real industrial policy that supports the automotive industry chain in its investments. Over one billion of the fund is SMEs through Innovation Agreements and Mini Development Contracts, a new tool more suited to their size. On the front of the question we confirm the interventions for commercial vehicles, retrofit and charging infrastructure, introducing also the long-term social rental for the most fragile families. We want to accompany the industrial transition with a policy that combines competitiveness, employment and social inclusion, strengthening the national productive system: a new season begins”.
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