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Italy business lobby asks for urgent measures to lower energy costs
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Posted on May 27, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 27, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Italy's business lobby demands urgent measures to cut energy costs, citing surcharges over European averages. Proposals include changes in pricing and a return to nuclear energy.
MILAN (Reuters) -Italian industries need lower energy costs in order to survive and compete effectively with European peers, the head the country's main business lobby Confindustria said on Tuesday.
"Our companies continue to suffer from an energy (price) surcharge of more than 35% over the European average, even reaching peaks of 80% when compared to the largest European countries," Emanuele Orsini said at Confindustria's annual meeting.
Orsini called for a change in the price mechanism for electricity, a cut in the general costs included in energy bills, fewer regulatory hurdles for renewables, and a return to nuclear energy.
(Reporting by Francesca Landini, editing by Alvise Armellini)
Italian industries need lower energy costs to survive and compete effectively with their European peers.
Italian companies face an energy price surcharge of more than 35% over the European average, with peaks reaching 80% compared to the largest European countries.
Confindustria's head, Emanuele Orsini, called for a change in the price mechanism for electricity, a reduction in general costs on energy bills, fewer regulatory hurdles for renewables, and a return to nuclear energy.
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