Emanuele Orsini, president of the Italian industrialist association (Confindustria), called for an immediate suspension of the ETS (Emission Trading System) to avoid deindustrialization. Speaking at the annual congress of Confindustria, in front of State President Mattarella, PM Giorgia Meloni, and other government and institutional representatives, Orsini said that ETS is a perverse mechanism because it is a tax on producers that favours their competitors, and while a revision is welcome, it must be immediately suspended. “Suspension is requested because we know that the European timeframe for an effective revision is too long. Suspending it means allowing a better revision, but also avoiding that in the meantime other factories are forced to close or relocate.”
(Prime minister Meloni, speaking after Orsini, said the government agrees to a suspension.)
In the last quarter century, the Italian economy has not really grown, Orsini said. “Italy’s GDP in 2025 is only 10% higher than in 2000. In the same period, the European GDP increased by 40%, that of the United States by almost 70%, and that of China by 586%.” It took 16 years to return to the levels before the financial crisis of 2007, he said. “The truth is that, collectively, we have not done enough.”
