A central theme of Orsini’s intervention was dear energy, called an “unsustainable situation”. The increase in energy prices is putting to the test of families and businesses, with a surcharge in some areas that reaches up to 80% compared to the European average. Orsini reiterated the need to “disintegrate” the price of the gas from that of renewables in the bill to reduce costs. He then underlined the urgency to accelerate on nuclear power, suggesting the introduction of small modular reactors, considered less invasive, safer and capable of guaranteeing a supply of continuous energy, indispensable for industries.
The relationship with the European Union
Giorgia Meloni’s intervention
During the assembly, the premier Giorgia Melons He faced some of the themes raised by Orsini. He defined as a priority the issue of the cost of energy, announcing that the government is working on a market analysis to identify potential anomalies. Meloni stressed that Italy must act with pragmatism to face economic difficulties and reiterated the need to collaborate with the European Union to correct the too stringent regulations that limit competitiveness. On the Green deal European, Meloni said, “some choices were made because we wanted to put the ideology to realism and this had a obvious result, which many of us here in this room, also from different points of view, had foreseen and denounced”. Someone, added the Premier, deliberately chose to pursue a strategy that put our products off the market to pursue at all costs, but against all logic, choices that were enemies of the European industry. The curious thing is that today everyone dismiss the authorship of those choices, but those choices have precise names and surnames “.
Roberta Metsolapresident of the European Parliament, present at the Assembly, guaranteed the support of Europe to industry, underlining the importance of breaking down the bureaucratic barriers that penalize businesses. “Europe must offer solutions, not to become part of the problem,” he said, praising Italian leadership in keeping the centrality of industry in the European debate alive.
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