Produce weapons to Companies of the automotive sector Italian who for years have been paid in situations of economic difficulty and thus strengthening national defense. This is the plan with which the government of Giorgia Meloni He intends to intervene in support of car factories and, in derivatively, of his own war power. A passage that is typical of a war economy, with Italy that actually replies the setting already chosen by the German government, also struggling with national automotive companies in deep crisis. For the Business Minister and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso This is a fundamental step, the only one that will allow Italy to govern “the new industrial revolution”.
Urso intends to respond to current needs
Waiting to know the details of the new Italian industrial strategy plan Made in Italy 2030 which will be presented next June, the minister Adolfo Urso gave an interview to Messenger in which he underlined the need for the country to “govern the transition” and “transform a necessity into an opportunity”. The declared reference of the owner of the Mimit is to the need to convert production of some sectors, so that the same follow “theevolution of customs“In progress.
Urso spoke specifically of the automotive sector, saying that today “the car is no longer for young people a symbol of freedom, their greater aspiration, as it has been for us”. And again: “In electrical vehicles there are much less components than an endothermic: the battery alone represents 40 percent of the value. Finally, the transport will be increasingly conveyed on other solutions, railways or air -free air vehicles”. All reasons that, put together, are leading many European and Italian car companies to the crisis.
To get out of this difficulty and also benefit from it, Italy in the wake of Germany therefore thinks about the conversion of production that can be functional to the strengthening of defense. “A microchip can already be used for a car or satellite – Urso said – The electronic card works both in an urban vehicle and in an helicopter. The tracked one tractor as a armored that protects our soldiers in Lebanon. Moreover – he added – it is a dynamic already in place also for some large car producers: Nissan has started the development of a lunar rover in collaboration with the Japanese Space Agency, Toyota is developing one with a pressurized passenger compartment, Audi also built his Lunar four participating in the Google Lunar XPrize “.
The EU rearmament and possible incentives for conversion
It cannot be excluded that the Italian and German strategy of reconversion cannot find concreteness even in the help by theEuropean Union. Many, in fact, are to argue that the European rearm maxi-part announced by Ursula von der leyen He was developed with the main aim of saving German car manufacturers.
On the possible European incentives on the reconversion plan Urso has clear ideas: “Europe has set itself the objective of reaching at least 3 percent of defense expenditure and therefore on safety, deliberating that the resources used are slimmed by the calculations of the stability pact. It is therefore plausible – it clarified – that there will be an ‘acceleration on purchases and investments of what is needed to protect peace and freedom in our continent. These are also Dual Use sectors: a drone more serve to improve the protection of the territory, efficient mountain agriculture, transport goods but also to contrast external attacks without exposing staff at risk “.
Parallelism with Germany
To understand how the set -up of national economies is moving its center of gravity to the arms industry, Italy has the fitting example of the Germany. Since he was elected Donald Trump to the White House, the German giant of weapons Rheinmetall He saw his market value triple with the capitalization of the company (equal to today to 55.7 billion) which has exceeded – for the first time in history – that of the Volkswagen group (54.4 billion). From the car to armaments, in a “game” of balance of the states that aim to be found as prepared as possible for all possible future scenarios.
