Surprised, Bonomi’s Confindustria is increasingly Melonian
Not only on Stellantis, the Bonomi-led Confindustria demonstrates clear harmony with the positions of the executive of Giorgia Meloni. Facts, theses and surprises
«The EU aimed to be the first in terms of sustainability and then said make do. It does not work like that". And, again: «we have all the conditions to do well. We have the financial resources, we will most likely have government stability and this gives us the guarantee of measures that look to the medium-long term". They are not quotation marks taken from a member of the executive, perhaps from the Melonian area, but from Carlo Bonomi , number 1 of Confindustria, collected by Sole 24 Ore .
FORGOT THE SORRY ABOUT FALLING DRAGONS?
Precisely that Bonomi who did not send them to tell Giuseppe Conte in the midst of the pandemic and on the management of the PNRR («We imagined a plan that would concentrate on strengthening the country's growth potential. Instead, we found ourselves faced with a series of interventions rain") and who seemed to have lost his smile with the fall of Mario Draghi ("We industrialists were incredulous in the face of Draghi's fall. The irresponsibility of the parties reached its peak that day," he told Corriere at the end of July 1922 ). Instead, the number 1 of Confindustria seems to have returned surprisingly and exceptionally optimistic.
CONFINDUSTRIA DOES NOT ENTER THE COURT OF AUDITORS
No criticism of the government, not even for the matter of the Court of Auditors, badly deprived of the controls on the projects of the Next Generation Eu: «I am not entering into the controversies of the Court of Auditors, it is not up to us entrepreneurs. What I ask is a bath of reality, we must say what we are able to achieve and which serves the growth of the country. Going into debt just to say that we have spent the resources is not the right way".
FOR BONOMI THE GOVERNMENT WILL LAST
And even if the majority is contentious, Bonomi is still betting on stability (perhaps because he is aware of the irrelevance of the opposition): «We will most likely have government stability and this gives us the guarantee of measures that look at the medium-long term. It's an opportunity not to be missed, Italian industry is there and wants to participate in the country's growth».
CRITICISM OF THE EU (SHARED WITH THE GOVERNMENT)
The number 1 of the industrialists also shares the criticisms that the majority address to Brussels: «the EU, indeed a person, Commissioner Timmermans , is carrying out an ideological crusade against European industry». And above all he underlines the lack of aid: «To reach the European targets on the environment, 3,500 billion of investments are needed at the EU level, 650 in Italy. The Pnrr allocates between 60 and 70 billion, which means that the rest is on the shoulders of businesses and households" and we need "a European sovereign fund that can accompany businesses towards transitions, but after the pandemic crisis Europe has stopped make Europe".
In short, we need «those industrial policy interventions necessary for European industry to grow, as China did with the MIC strategic plan and the United States with IRA, which is not a measure of protection but of competitiveness. The EU aimed to be the first in terms of sustainability and then said make do. It does not work like that".
While on the redefinition of the PNRR Bonomi reveals that Confindustria does not share the concerns of the oppositions: "there is a clash with the EU regardless of whether we are able to implement the projects". In short, the industrialists embrace the Melonian guide and cling to it tenaciously.
NOT ONLY BONOMI, CONFINDUSTRIA WONDERS FOR MELONS
Only a few days ago we recorded the curious media buzz that appeared in the pages of the Confindustria del Sole : no less than two articles (an interview with former number 1 of Confindustria Lombardia Marco Bonometti , president of the OMR Group, Officine Meccaniche Rezzatesi, a company specialized in the production of bases for engines, transmissions, chassis and suspension accompanied by an editorial by the editor of the page on engines) to say that Stellantis is leaving our country on the sly and therefore a state intervention in the shareholding structure is needed to ballast it here.
These interventions were followed by the even more explicit one by Paolo Scudieri , president of Anfia, the Association of companies in the automotive supply chain, managing director of the Adler Hp Pelzer Group, a family business founded by his father, Achille, in 1956 with turnover 2 billion euro active in the design, development and production of components and systems for the transport industry but, above all, a member of the Advisory Board of Confindustria. In the past he was also a member of the national council of Confindustria and of the select committee for internationalisation.
"It is necessary to balance the forces and weights in Stellantis, it is a question of a right thing, in the light of the presence of the French state" is Scudieri's comment on the proposal put forward in the Sole 24 Ore by Bonometti, who spoke of the possibility of an entry Cdp in Stellantis to balance the presence of the French state and protect the Italian supply chain.
The most interesting aspect is that the proposal follows the one that Giorgia Meloni 's party put forward to Mario Draghi , Prime Minister at the time. “We will present a project that provides for the preparation of a national plan for the automotive sector and the participation of CDP in the shareholding structure of the new company on a par with the French public share. It is now, in fact, clear how it was not at all a question of an equal merger between FCA and PSA but a sale that foreshadows a French governance, whose public shareholder has, moreover, increased its share after the merger, contrary to what was previously affirmed”, in fact Adolfo Urso , today Minister for Enterprise and Made in Italy, said at an online meeting in March 2021.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/sorpresona-la-confindustria-di-bonomi-e-sempre-piu-meloniana/ on Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:14:59 +0000.