Adnkronos Rome, May 14 (Adnkronos) – “Minister Urso appeared in this Chamber today more than a month late with respect to our requests and said nothing significant about duties, instead he confirmed that the Meloni government has no vision or strategy, but is just floating while continuing to make propaganda.
This is a very serious problem for Italian businesses and workers." Senator Antonio Misiani, head of the economy in the national secretariat of the Democratic Party, said this in the Chamber.
"The first 100 days of the Trump Presidency - Misiani explained - have been an epochal disaster, American voters are realizing it and we hope the Meloni government will soon realize it too. Trump has engaged in the most stupid trade war in history with randomly calculated duties that have immediately demonstrated their danger for global growth prospects, for the stability of financial markets and for the credibility of the US and the West. An embarrassing show that has been on air since April 2. Now the American president, faced with the risk of recession, is making a painful U-turn, because the right-wing trade sovereignism cannot stand the test of reality, it produces recession and inflation and damages the living conditions of citizens".
"However, much damage has already been done and risks being very serious for Italy too and on this we note the lack of awareness of the government and Minister Urso. The USA is the second largest market for Italy, with a trade surplus of 39 billion euros. Today our products are subject to real duties of 20%, also due to the devaluation of the dollar. If the duties are not revoked, we will lose billions of euros in exports and GDP and more than 50 thousand jobs, in an already serious situation due to the fall in industrial production for over 26 months. Faced with all this today we expected clear answers, a strategy, a plan, a concrete proposal with coverage. Minister Urso instead confirms that the government is late, it only makes propaganda and has no idea how to protect the Italian production system. It is necessary first of all to work as a team at EU level, while the government is going in and out. We should diversify the markets for our products and prepare a plan to support the economic system, but Meloni's promise of 25 billion has disappeared from the radar. Above all, we need an industrial policy worthy of the name, while Ilva is blowing up, businesses don't know what to do and the government is focusing only on the banks, with a golden power over Unicredit that is neither here nor there. The world as it was before - concluded Misiani - will not return and we should equip ourselves".