To increase vehicle production in Italy "we have started discussions with producers from various countries, not only Eastern but also Western".
This was stated by the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, in a hearing at the Chamber's Productive Activities Committee, recalling that in a city in Germany "they rejected a massive expansion plan for Tesla's European assembly plant and this will certainly lead to a decision by the group" .
Group with which there would be contact.
"We are having very positive feedback but it is a process that requires caution."
With Tesla "we dialogue damesi", underlines Urso.
"Italy started late in this policy of attracting foreign investments, we only have one automotive company" but "in a short time we were able to reverse the trend and make the government look at it with renewed interest", adds Urso.
The foreign producers interested in approaching Europe, Urso remarks, are "car companies which at the moment do not produce in Europe but which are looking with interest at our market, also aware, as President Draghi himself indicated yesterday, that we will necessarily have to protect the internal market from competition with commercial measures as they are making the United States and with industrial measures".
Urso, 'one million and 200 thousand workers in auto components'
The auto components sector in our country is made up of around 2200 companies that employ over 167 thousand workers, while the extended supply chain sees over 5500 companies that employ 273 thousand direct workers in production activities and around one million and 200 thousand including workers indirect.
These are the numbers cited by the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, in a hearing at the Chamber's Productive Activities Commission.
The expanded supply chain generates approximately 90 billion euros in turnover equal to 9.9% of the entire manufacturing sector with an impact on the Italian gross domestic product of 5.2% with "globally recognized excellence".
According to Anfia's forecasts, the expansionary dynamics of the sector "continued last year" but the minister points out "at least three risk factors" for its stability.
These would be the trend strongly linked to national and European production, the challenges of decarbonisation and "even more so the uncertainty of the European economic framework" and, finally, "the strategies of the main Italian producer and the entry of new competitors in Italy and in Europe".
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