Confartigianato: 881 thousand SMEs, 3.5 million jobs at risk

(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 08 - "The expensive energy puts at risk 881,264 micro and small enterprises with 3,529,000 employees, equal to 20.6% of the employment of the Italian entrepreneurial system".

Localcola Confartigianato analyzing "the increasingly vast and heavy impact of the mad rush of gas and electricity prices on companies in 43 sectors" coinciding with the launch, today, of a series of meetings with political leaders in view of the vote.

"We risk a massacre of companies. We need immediate interventions but also equally rapid structural reforms to bring energy prices under control and avert an unprecedented crisis", warns the president MarcoGranelli.

   At a territorial level, Confartigianato estimates, "the region most exposed to the disastrous effects of high energy costs on the employment of small businesses is Lombardy: 139 thousand companies with 751 thousand employees are at risk. Veneto is no better off, where 77 thousand small enterprises with 376 thousand employees are at risk. .

   Emilia-Romagna (72,000 small businesses with 357,000 employees), Lazio (79,000 businesses and 304,000 employees), Piedmont with 62,000 businesses employing 262,000 employees, Campania (77,000 businesses with 240,000 employees), and Tuscany 63 thousand enterprises and 228 thousand employees, Puglia (57 thousand small enterprises and 177 thousand employees) and Sicily (63 thousand enterprises with 165 thousand employees) ".

(HANDLE).