Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso on Wednesday called for a new industrial policy to promote competitiveness, saying the European Union needed to take action to protect businesses against tariffs in a note issued on the sidelines of an EU Competitiveness Council in Brussels on Wednesday.
"Defending ourselves commercially is not enough.
"A new industrial policy is necessary to give back competitiveness to our companies", Urso said in the note released on the sidelines of the Council, which also provided the occasion for several bilateral meetings with the ministers of Poland, Austria and Romania.
For this reason, "Italy has outlined to Europe a road to reforms, to be carried out immediately, with a clear strategic vision", also said the note.
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