'Compulsory vaccination is useful if it limits risks and motivates people to vaccinate. That must be the goal. Having said that, I am more than in favour, and indeed, like Confindustria, I am for compulsory vaccination of all people'. Thus Maurizio Marchesini, Confindustria Vice President for Supply Chains and Medium-sized Enterprises, spoke on Qn on the introduction of the compulsory Super Green pass in workplaces in the forthcoming Cdm.

And on the explosion of Covid cases in recent weeks, Marchesini said: 'It is a special moment, the virus is less aggressive but there are many positive cases, with all that this entails: isolations, quarantines and therefore people who cannot physically go to work. This strong resurgence of the pandemic is certainly a factor of uncertainty that is added to others that are even more impactful,' such as the shortage of raw materials and the rising cost of energy, 'there are companies that are postponing reopening, as in the ceramics sector, precisely because producing has too high a price.

While on the risk of a downturn in the current recovery, the Vice President for Supply Chains and Medium Enterprises emphasised: 'I don't see it as so negative, because the recovery is strong, there is optimism among entrepreneurs and a desire to succeed. But of course in such a scenario all factors have to be taken into account and these three, pandemic, energy and raw materials, are certainly problematic for companies'.

Marchesini then talked about smart working and the measures implemented in his company to contain Covid, explaining that in his companies agile working was only envisaged in exceptional cases, because the type of activity does not always allow it. "But we have worked, and continue to work, on safety, with strict and precise rules, checks on personnel, different organisation of logistics, from offices to canteens".

Finally, returning to the need to introduce compulsory vaccination in order to get out of the emergency, he emphasised: 'Let's remember that the trade unions have also come out in favour of compulsory vaccination,' but beyond these new measures, the next steps to beat the pandemic must be 'to vaccinate as many people as possible around the world, bringing the serum to those who do not have it. We cannot focus only on some countries and allow the virus to circulate in others, with the possibility of variants developing. We must commit ourselves to this, all of us'.