"The country needs a strong industrial policy, based on certain investments and a radical streamlining of bureaucracy," given that "bureaucracy in Italy costs companies €80 billion a year. The single ZES represents the right way to simplify, given that building a new production facility still takes too many months," said Confindustria President Emanuele Orsini, speaking at the first event of the national initiative "The Changing Country – Leadership Forum Made for Italy."

Orsini also addressed the ETS: "The European ETS carbon trading mechanism has become perverse and speculative, rising from €5 to €86 per ton and penalizing gas-based industrial sectors like ceramics and glass," he emphasized. He added: "We ask the government to allocate the approximately €2.5 billion raised by the state through ETS auctions to support manufacturing companies that want to decarbonize, following the example of what is already happening in Germany."

(Unioneonline)