Column number 74 – 2020

Now that we have ceased to feel like the characters of an Hollywood’s production, we must deal with the need to foresee the moment in which economy will restart and we will begin our path to normality. What is clear is that the roadmap to normality will not be easy and immediate, we shall proceed step by step, restarting economy per grades. What is clear is that the roadmap to normality will not be easy and immediate, we shall proceed step by step, restarting economy in grades. It is still not possible, at this moment, to understand if the restart will be made by politics authorities by production chains, but surely it will take some months. It is easy to predict that it will take place not before the autumn, with some differences from country to country, according to the moment of the pandemic peak. Whatever are our thoughts and our aims today, it is sure that they will not be the same tomorrow, as conditions change so quickly more than we can manage to make programs for the short and medium terms. Some optimistic speakers predict a wide resumption after the lockdown, since consumption will resume worldwide as the people returns spending money and enjoying life after the long period of isolation and fear. From this point of view must be intended as very inspired the choice of holding Tube 2020 in December: it could be the right moment to take advantage of the will to restart of companies and insiders. What we know for sure is that the decision to postpone the exhibition in late February was very timely and appropriate, and cou- rageous, especially because it was assumed in a moment in which pandemic was not so clearly recognized at all levels and here in Italy we all were worried more to be excluded from all international events than they were delayed or cancelled. The recommendations issued by Cecimo to National and European decision ma- kers to avoid dissolvement of European Industrial potential are clear and strong:tax relief, credits, extraordinary nancial aids, payment facilitation framework, in- frastructures, reprogramming of structural funds. The question is if these counter- measures, when applied, can be enough. The sensation is that the only way to get out of this incoming world economic crisis is completely think over the industrial and economic structure of our times: without a complete palingenesis of our eco- nomic framework it is hard to think how our companies can come out from the global lockdown. It is not the moment to think on our own, but to create relations that can aid everyone to restart: companies, governments and people must meetthe idea that we must preserve the markets, and preserving the markets means rstof all preserve employment that means in turn preserve companies, productive ca- pabilities and commerce. No other way out than imagine a year or two of coope- ration between Countries and companies worldwide in a sort of new globalization aimed at common protection.