“Lombardy is the driving region for exports, it has the highest number of consulates in the world and has always stood out as a hub of innovation and cutting edge”. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this while speaking via video link at the Lombardy World Summit organized by the Region at the IBM Studios in Milan.
“The Lombard economy, in recent years, despite the complex international situation – he added – has proven to be solid and capable of reacting, as the data on GDP, employment and new businesses tell us”.
Results, “and I say this with pride, on which I am convinced the good regional governance and the structural choices carried out have contributed” added Meloni, underlining that Lombardy “is also a territory in which the productive force has always been combined with a great attention to social issues and subsidiarity”.
A Region “symbol of national unity”, where “Italians from every part of Italy have found their way and built the future for their families – concluded Meloni -. Lombardy is the best of what we know to be Italian: a great people capable of still surprising by combining innovation and tradition”.
Bonomi, there is a slowdown in the economy, don’t pretend not to see it
“We cannot close our eyes to what has been happening since the second half of 2022, to the very hard blows that sudden and unpredictable exogenous storms have dealt us in recent years.” Thus the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, at the Lombardy World Forum organized by the Region. “Lombardy and the North as a whole – he adds – have once again demonstrated their maturity and determination in knowing how to make leaps forward while facing extreme difficulties. Tourism and services have certainly also contributed, but the significant growth rates of 2021 and 2022 which do not seen since the Second World War have seen as their driving force the record of manufacturing exports and the results of the double-digit investments of the companies of Lombardy and the North. However, for numerous quarters an increasingly evident limit has begun to appear, the overlapping of ever new lashes exogenous factors has gradually slowed down the impetuous growth of the previous two years”. “The slowdown is felt in Lombardy – continues Bonomi – and throughout the North and we cannot pretend not to see it, we cannot simply hope that everything will pass. These years have taught us that a new normal exists, in the international economy sudden crises are become increasingly frequent, rapid and unpredictable”.
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