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Orsini says Italy’s investment tax relief should continue
Emanuele Orsini, head of Italy’s Confindustria business group, said an investment tax measure called hyper-depreciation had worked and should continue.
Speaking in Milan, he said the government had set aside €2.5 billion for the measure and that investment requests had already exceeded €7 billion in the first months.
He said the scheme had also helped economic growth.
Orsini said energy costs affect Europe’s competitiveness.
He did not take a position on whether Italy should resume buying Russian gas, saying the issue was outside his role.
He argued that energy policy should not be driven by ideology.
He said Confindustria would go to support suspending the EU emissions trading system on Thursday, adding that existing actions had not resolved the problem.
Confindustria President Emanuele Orsini said Italy should continue investment tax relief, saying the hyper-depreciation measure had worked.
He said requests in the measure’s first months already corresponded to more than €7 billion in investments.
The government had allocated €2.5 billion, according to Orsini.
He said the measure had also helped economic growth.
Orsini made the remarks on the sidelines of an Assolombarda assembly in Milan.
- Who
- Emanuele Orsini, president of Confindustria.
- What
- He said Italy should continue investment incentives, saying hyper-depreciation had worked.
- When
- October 12, 2026.
- Where
- On the sidelines of an Assolombarda assembly in Milan, Italy.
- Why
- Orsini said the measure had helped economic growth and that investment requests exceeded the government’s allocation.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Investment requests reached more than €7 billion against a government allocation of €2.5 billion.
Orsini said at the Assolombarda assembly in Milan that hyper-depreciation had worked and investment should continue.
Orsini said he would go to support suspending the ETS.
- Government allocation
- €2.5 billion
- Investment requests
- More than €7 billion
- Speaker
- Emanuele Orsini, Confindustria president
- Location
- Milan, Italy
- Policy
- Hyper-depreciation investment relief
What people are saying
Continuing with investments: hyper-depreciation has worked.
It managed to provide help to GDP growth too, because we saw requests made in the first months against two and a half billion from the government: already more than 7 billion in investments, so it is very positive.
Energy is a competitiveness issue because we see it in Europe.
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