Confartigianato to the Region: "Immediate interventions to support businesses and families"
Lai and Serra denounce the risk of closure for 35 thousand companies with 90 thousand employees
“The 35 thousand artisan enterprises of Sardinia, together with more than 90 thousand employees , are experiencing an unprecedented crisis linked to the mad rush in gas and electricity prices. Situation that risks canceling thousands of productive activities and causing the loss of tens of thousands of jobs ”. This is the alarm launched by Confartigianato Sardegna which wrote to the regional councilors for Budget and Craftsmanship, Giuseppe Fasolino and Gianni Chessa , to ask for measures to support businesses and families, with quick, concrete and bureaucratic tools and solutions.
"Many artisan activities - write the President of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna, Maria Amelia Lai , and the regional secretary Daniele Serra - if the expensive energy route is not reversed, they will no longer be able to work and will find themselves having to definitively close with irreparable damage to the regional economic and social system ".
The data from the surveys of the Research Office of Confartigianato Sardegna are alarming : in August the prices of electricity, gas and other fuels on the island grew, on average, by 75.6% compared to the same period in 2021. L he greatest increase was recorded in Olbia-Tempio with + 73.6% compared to the previous year; followed by the province of Sassari with + 64.7% and Cagliari with + 66.4%. Furthermore, in September 2021 to date the micro and small enterprises of Sardinia have paid 425 million euros more for electricity than the previous year. The sectors most affected on the island are those of bakery, food, woodworking and self-repair as well as those of glass, ceramics, cement, paper, metallurgy, chemistry, textiles, rubber and plastic.
" An unprecedented impact on the small productive activities of the island - write the island leaders of Confartigianato - which risks further magnification if in the next four months the prices of electricity do not decrease". The higher costs for small entrepreneurs, in fact, could rise in 2022 up to 850 million euros more than in 2021.
"The situation is unsustainable and risks getting out of control", say Lai and Serra who are asking for "immediate and equally rapid reforms to bring energy prices under control and avert a massacre of companies and an unprecedented crisis".
(Unioneonline / EC)
