The presence of ideological positions on the energy question was considered 'unacceptable' by the former president of the Confederation of Italian Industries (Confindustria) Ceramica, paper, glass are the sectors on which, according to Emanuele Orsini, the ETS 'is impacting very much'. For this reason, he said at the Assolombarda assembly in Milan, 'we need to protect also the basic industry'.

Orsini was asked about the possibility of Russia's gas returning to the market. 'I am not into the topic of Russian gas or non-Russian gas - he replied - it is not within my competence. I believe that today we have to say also the truth, that there cannot be ideology on energy'.

Energy is a competitiveness issue because we see it in Europe: we will go already on Thursday to support the fact that the ETS must be suspended.

At the assembly, he said again, 'we will talk so much also about artificial intelligence, which I believe is one of the new industries. Attention to not lose also the basic industry, which is fundamental for the country'.

On investments, the request is to continue. 'Hyper-amortization has worked', he said Orsini. According to the Confindustria president, the measure 'has been able to give even an aid to the growth of GDP'. The requests presented already in the first months exceed 70 billion euros in investments, against two and a half billion euros from the government.

Artificial intelligence 'will be the fourth industrial revolution, today we are used to turning on the light and artificial intelligence will be the same thing'. This is what the Confindustria president Emanuele Orsini said intervening at the Milan Assolombarda general assembly.

The real topic of small things is that they should finish another part of digitalization, - he added - to us it is necessary that enterprises are always digitally transformed to 100% but beyond this they have also data as I call them 'washed in the washing machine', which can be used because otherwise, at the end, artificial intelligence on unprecise data becomes a problem'.

It has been eight months that the President of the Council says, and I share, that there are 72 Commission of Europe requests on the decree of the energy bills. I say that we must row all in the same direction'.

This is what the Confindustria president Emanuele Orsini, intervening at the Milan Assolombarda general assembly, suggested: 'maybe some piece of the energy bill decree could take and make it immediately into law'.