ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Acceptable”. So in an interview on Il Gazzettino the Minister Adolfo Urso, who does not use means terms. In the aftermath of the shock announcement with which Electrolux has predicted 1,700 esuberi in the five Italian establishments, in fact halving the production in the Boot, the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy convened for May 25 a table at Palazzo Piacentini with company, unions and Regions: “The workers must be protected and every industrial plant must be preserved,” he added.
“The company has been in crisis for years – he explains –, fails to counter Chinese competition, in Hungary has already closed the establishment and in the United States has ceded to the Chinese group Midea. This is why we are conducting a battle in Europe to counter the unfair competition of China and to defend the strategic industrial sectors of the continent, starting from household appliances and automotive”.
And to the question about what the state can do, he answers: “We have mainly two tools, which we are using effectively, when possible and where necessary. First of all, the special powers of golden power, which we have exercised, for example, in the acquisition of Whirlpool by Beko. A case that, however, can only be activated before the acquisition of a company or a significant passage of the stock arrangement. We then introduced, with the Decree Asset of 2023, an anti-delocalization tool to impose on large enterprises the return of public incentives received in the last ten years, if they decide to close a plant in Italy to delocalize abroad. The crisis of Electrolux, however, does not fall even in this case.”.
“We have reached the final stage – he adds. In the face of the approximately ten events of initial interest, three, both Italian and foreign, have been realized in offers. We are now in the final evaluation phase of the proposals. The next few days will therefore be decisive. In this path, the Ministry has played a central role, even in comparison with the Ronal fund, working to ensure that all the assets of the company – from workers to machinery, to real estate – were safeguarded and valued.”.
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