Read, we need new reflection on industrial policies

(ANSA) - TERNI, NOV 18 - The theme of industrial policies "sees our country definitely in need of a new reflection", because "we are still stuck with many definitions and elaborations that come from the past": today was said by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, opening in Terni, in video link, the Agora "Strategie per la siderurgiaitaliana", organized by the Democratic Party. "What has happened in recent years - he continued -, on the one hand all the dynamics linked to green and sustainability, on the other hand the changes that have occurred due to the pandemic and all the ongoing revolution in the field of logistics at an international level, for value chains and moving goods and changing the impact of raw materials and prices,it is objectively modifying the pivotal points of the industrial policy compass ".

    According to the secretary of the Democratic Party, "a country that rightly boasts of being the second industrial power in Europe and among the main ones in the world needs to be at the forefront of reflection on how industrial policies must be reworked with an eye to the future and transformation". In particular, "the issue of raw materials, the price of energy and logistics - said AncoraLetta - are issues that are seeing changes in size and qualitative aspects of such impact that had not been seen for a long time. All this has an impact on company, public and citizen accounts ". "For these reasons - he concluded - addressing a reflection on the theme of industrial policies and in particular on the steel industry represents an important point of reference and one of the elements on which we intend to work ". (ANSA).