“The cost of energy continues to be at unsustainable levels. We cannot afford a new brake on production, investments, and consumption in Lombardy. With these costs, Lombardy stops.” The alarm comes from the economic development assessor of the Lombardy region, Guido Guidesi, who urges addressing the price hike as a “real energy emergency.”
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For Guidesi, it is necessary to “act immediately” with “immediate decisions”: “If we want to defend the competitiveness of our production system and the purchasing power of families, we can no longer postpone.”
The assessor denounces a situation that has worsened over the last five years, for which “the European Union has not yet built an immediate and structural response.” Financial speculation continues, consequently continuing to harm families and businesses: “Today companies risk seeing their margins eroded and, consequently, reducing or stopping production. At the same time, families continue to be forced to limit consumption to manage the cost of bills. It is a situation we cannot afford.”
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Guidesi then launches an appeal to the Government and Europe, identifying three immediate interventions to activate: “Greater transparency in the formation and calculation of the energy price, regulatory limits on financial speculation that affects prices, and a price cap that allows containing the effects of dynamics that have nothing to do with the real production costs.”
The Lombardy assessor also recalls the work done together with his colleague Massimo Sertori and the regional president Attilio Fontana, as a positive example of collaboration between producers and energy consumers to find “concrete solutions.” “We have made precise proposals, but we continue not to be heard.”
