Confindustria, Bonomi; "Draghi is the man of necessity, we recognize ourselves in him"

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23 September 2021 Confindustria hopes that Prime Minister Mario Draghi "will continue for a long time in his current experience" and warns: he will continue "without the parties attempting to attack the cohesion of the Government, thinking of the next administrative vetoes and maneuvers in view of the choice to be made for the Quirinale ".

President Carlo Bonomi dedicates ample space in his report to the annual assembly of industrialists to the figure of Draghi, one of the "men of necessity", different from the "men of providence" as one who gave birth to "a twenty-year regime of oppression" and from the "men of the possible", those of the "kick to the can", of the "eternal postponement".

"Mario Draghi is one of these men of necessity", says Bonomi: "Personalities who feel the duty to respond to the problems of the Italian community, before the ambition to remain at its helm at any cost. De Gasperi, protagonist of the Italian reconquest of honor among the Nations. Mustache to the Bank of Italy, committed against the trafficking of the banker of the Sindona mafia to whom politics then lent support, and even arrested for this. sense and values ​​of a democratic and rigorous Italy ".

In his report to the annual meeting, Bonomi pauses to describe the "three types of men" of the "history of the political and institutional life of our country", characteristics in contrast to the qualities that industrialists recognize Mario Draghi. 

"As entrepreneurs - says the leader of the industrialists - we do not believe at all in the political myth of the man of providence. Italy has experienced one, and gave birth to a twenty-year regime of autocratic and racist oppression, leading Italy to the rubble of war. It can and must be enough: no more men of providence. No more illiberal regimes, which unfortunately have also returned to Europe in recent years ".

"Then, in political life, there are the men of the possible. Those who, starting from their own ideal, strive, with one eye always aimed at short-term consensus, and with the other to avoid courageous choices, which may also arouse disappointment and discontent. Italy, of these men of the possible, has known dozens and dozens, in the whirlwind of republican life, which has given us, on average, one premier a year. Think about it, in the last 16 years only Merkel in Germany, in Italy 9 different Presidents of the Council. In a country that has accumulated imbalances and errors over decades, men of the possible and end up being world champions of a single specialty. Football in the can, the eternal postponement to the future of any effective solution to the many delays and economic and social fractures we have,unfortunately, accumulated in our country ". 

"It's time to change and make the right choices for Italy"

"It's time to decide to choose to change. To make the right choices to make Italy grow in the world. The hardest thing in life is to understand which bridge you have to cross and which bridge you have to burn. Because changing is certainly difficult, but not changing for Italy is fatal ". This is the message contained in the conclusion of the speech by the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi at the assembly of industrialists who quotes a sentence by Bebe Vio defined as the heroine of the passion of effort and will: "Let them tell you that it is impossible, and show everyone that you can do it".

"Reforms now, no to those who flirt with no vax"

 "The reforms need to be done now. Enough postponements, enough tricks, enough vetoes. Really enough", warns the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, expressing his "concern" about the timed program for reforms linked to the NRP which "risks slipping". For the industrialists, "the risky game of the flags of ephemeral consensus is a profoundly wrong path". Confindustria "will oppose all those who want to hinder the reform process"; "To those who flirt with the no vax instead of thinking about the safety of citizens and workers, as to those who think that this government is timed".

Bonomi to the unions: "Let's make a real Pact for Italy"

"Let us at least make a true Pact for Italy": the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, from the stage of the assembly addresses "directly the leaders" of Cgil, Cisl and Uil, Landini, Sbarra and Bombardieri. "Luigi, Maurizio, Pierpaolo, we did not start fighting, we have a great common task. Faced with the delays and the increasingly serious social fractures of our Italy, work and business have a great challenge: to build agreements together and indicate paths and tools that politics hardly sees ", says Bonomi, indicating three" concrete examples "on which to start: safety at work, active policies and smart working.

"The State waives VAT-excise income on energy"

"We are anxious to understand how the Government will try to stem these increases so that they do not translate into a sting for Italian families", said the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, at the annual meeting, underlining the issue of increases in commodities from mining to metals and up to the "dizzying rise in energy prices". And he says: "It is obvious that for us the best temporary solution would be a state renunciation of its massive revenues through VAT and excise duties which affect energy and fuels".

"Concerned about the tax reform, 3 billion as for Alitalia"

"On the tax side we have first of all a concern. We continue to read that the government would have only 3 billion available for tax reform. We have never liked the deficit and unlimited public debt. But on this we need to have clear ideas. given over 3 billion in the last 4 years to bankrupt Alitalia and to the small company that is now born ". It is the passage of the intervention of the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi who says he is in favor of adding to an intervention on the 38% Irpef rate, a cut in the tax wedge, the cancellation of IRAP, interventions to support businesses. 

Bonomi quotes Draghi: long standing ovation

A first long standing ovation, lasting over a minute, for Prime Minister Mario Draghi as soon as the president of Confindustria Carlo Bonomi mentions him during his speech at the Entrepreneurs' Assembly.

And then again more warm applause during the speech which dedicates a long endorsement to the premier.

The prime minister is seated in the front row, smiles and greets with his head the more than a thousand entrepreneurs crowded in the Palazzetto dello Sport in the Eur district in Rome.