(Finance) – “There is great concern. It is clear that the climate for the next few months is very complex. We need responsibility and the ability to decide for the good of the country “. He said it Emma Marcegaglia, president of Marcegaglia Holding and former number one of Confindustria, on the climate that reigns among entrepreneurs at the Ambrosetti forum, starting today.
“These gas and energy prices are unsustainable. Solutions are needed above all at a European level and they are needed immediately. We cannot wait months, but not even more days. Here we must act immediately “, added Marcegaglia according to whom” There is the risk, almost the certainty of not being able to make some productions, which would also mean layoffs for workers and poverty for families “.
“There are productions that are no longer standing but in general for a manufacturing and processing country like ours, the entire production system is likely to fail “, he explained again.
“I think the European price cap is the best solution, Draghi has been proposing it for months – continued -. We hope that progress will be made at the European Council in the coming days. If this does not happen, there is a risk that Europe will break up. Faced with a problem like this, which affects everyone, similar to the pandemic and the financial crisis, a joint solution is needed “.” It seems to me that Putin opens and closes the gas taps following a logic not related to prices but to absolutely geopolitical issues, hoping so as to divide Europe – underlined the former president of Confindustria -. I would like to see a price cap even in the presence of these threats “.
If Europe does not intervene, do we need a fiscal gap? “I would rather not. However, if Europe does not decide, we will have to think about thinking about it“, Marcegaglia replied.