{"id":20913,"date":"2025-10-30T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/?post_type=news&#038;p=20913"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:24:03","slug":"confindustria-meets-eu-commissioner-sefcovic-europe-puts-industry-at-the-heart-of-new-global-rules","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/news\/confindustria-meets-eu-commissioner-sefcovic-europe-puts-industry-at-the-heart-of-new-global-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Confindustria meets EU Commissioner \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d: 'Europe puts industry at the heart of the new global rules'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of <strong>Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini<\/strong>, and the <strong>Vice President for Internationalisation and Investment Attraction, Barbara Cimmino<\/strong>, they met the <strong>European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/press_communications\/confindustria-meets-eu-trade-commissioner-sefcovic\/\">centre of confrontation<\/a>which comes at a decisive time for the future of European industry, the new challenges of the <strong>european trade policy<\/strong>, the <strong>defence of industrial competitiveness<\/strong> and the need for a unified approach to the issues of <strong>trade and economic security<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Strengthening Europe's competitiveness<\/h3>\n<p>Orsini thanked the Commissioner for his commitment to a more industrially and geopolitically solid Europe, emphasising that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"the rules of global trade are changing rapidly and irreversibly: to avoid the marginalisation of the European Union, industry must be put at the centre of the new strategies. Trade and economic security are today two inseparable dimensions and Europe must address them in a united and pragmatic way'.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Mercosur and international relations<\/h3>\n<p>During the meeting, Confindustria reiterated its support for the<strong>European Commission's negotiating agenda on trade agreements<\/strong>particularly recalling the importance of the agreement with the <strong>Mercosur<\/strong>representing a market of over 700 million consumers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Orsini, 'this is a strategic agreement for Italian manufacturing and the European economy as a whole, the benefits of which outweigh the concerns of individual sectors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Steel and aluminium duties: towards a fairer balance<\/h3>\n<p>Ample space was also reserved for the <strong>transatlantic relations<\/strong>with a focus on <strong>duties on steel, aluminium and derivatives<\/strong>affecting more than a thousand products from major European industries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Orsini pointed out that 'the defence mechanism proposal is positive. Steel is crucial for competitiveness, green transition, defence and security,' and hoped that the new European instrument would foster more balanced bilateral relations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>A common path for European industrial policy<\/h3>\n<p>Confindustria will continue to work, together with <strong>Medef<\/strong> e <strong>BDI<\/strong>to present a joint contribution in view of the <strong>trilateral Italy-France-Germany<\/strong> to be held in Rome next week.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>'European industry is ready to play its part,' concluded Orsini, 'but we need stable international rules, balanced trade agreements and a European framework that rewards those who invest, innovate and produce in Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20916 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/public.confindustria.it\/repository\/2025\/10\/30171424\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-30-at-15.06.14.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/public.confindustria.it\/repository\/2025\/10\/30171424\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-30-at-15.06.14.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/public.confindustria.it\/repository\/2025\/10\/30171424\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-30-at-15.06.14-1280x851.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/public.confindustria.it\/repository\/2025\/10\/30171424\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-30-at-15.06.14-980x652.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/public.confindustria.it\/repository\/2025\/10\/30171424\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-30-at-15.06.14-480x319.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 2048px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini, and the Vice-President for Internationalisation and Investment Attraction, Barbara Cimmino, met the European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d. The focus of the discussion, which takes place at a decisive moment for the future of European industry, is the new challenges of European trade policy, the defence of [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":20912,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"in-evidenza":[238,82,83],"tag_globale":[231,64,130],"tema_globale":[],"tipo_news":[146],"class_list":["post-20913","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","in-evidenza-in-archivio-terzo-livello","in-evidenza-in-homepage-top","in-evidenza-in-menu-navigazione","tag_globale-europa","tag_globale-presidente","tag_globale-unione-europea","tipo_news-news"],"acf":{"contatti_repeater_news":"","persone_repeater_news":"","colore_fotogallery":"dark","immagini_fotogallery":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"in-evidenza","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/in-evidenza?post=20913"},{"taxonomy":"tag_globale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_globale?post=20913"},{"taxonomy":"tema_globale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema_globale?post=20913"},{"taxonomy":"tipo_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confindustria.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo_news?post=20913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}