(Telestock) – The 4th edition of the Abruzzo Economy Summit started today in Pescaraa moment to analyze the national and regional economic scenario and to identify new growth drivers, also in light of the challenges linked to the double energy and digital transition and the guidelines for the development of new technologies linked to artificial intelligence.
The first day was opened by Tiziana MagnaccaCouncilor of the Abruzzo Region for Productive Activities, Industrial Research, Work. Among the topics of the debate, critical infrastructures, the role of railways and urban regeneration, innovation, competitiveness and export.
Among others, he intervened: Valentine ValentiniDeputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, who explained that “for the two-year period 2024-2025, the resources mobilized for the 4.0 plan and Transition 5.0 amount to almost 13 billion“https://www.Finance.it/DettaglioNews/223_2024-09-19_TLB/.”In an increasingly dynamic and competitive global context – he underlined – Italy must face a series of challenges to increase its international competitiveness. The integration between innovation, sustainability and internationalization is crucial to enhance the country’s key sectors, while maintaining economic security and the well-being of society”.
The President of the Abruzzo Region, Mark Marsiliourged a European Commission’s review of the automotive agenda. “If Europe pursues goals that are difficult to achieve, unloading very heavy costs on businesses – he commented – the result is the recourse to social safety nets or factories that close. The political decision, as highlighted during today’s speech by economist Pino Mauro, whom I thank for the clarity, becomes fundamental to direct the growth of the territories. For this reason, I intend to encourage the European Parliament and Commission, through an opinion for which I am rapporteur at the Committee of the Regions, to rethink the agenda of the ecological transition towards electric. Sustainability, in fact, must not only be environmental but also social”.
Even the Minister Adolfo Ursoowner of MIMIT, after having highlighted the importance of Abruzzo exports thanks to the pharmaceutical and automotive sectors, referred to the sector crisisensuring that the government’s confrontation with continues Stellantis. “Atessa has always been an excellence also among Italian factories – said the Minister – the company has confirmed its centrality on several occasions. It did so in the meeting with the President of the Region and it did so also in the national tables. But the recent recourse to social safety nets is a signal that should not be underestimated in the confrontation with the company, in contrast with what it has supported in the national tables and in the confrontation with the Region. We must be assertive together for change the path of the Green Deal at European level and to commit the company to investments and development in our country and, as regards commercial vehicles, in your Region”.