“We are very satisfied and proud of the confirmation of Maurizio Gardini as national president of Confcooperative. Once again Emilia-Romagna, the cradle of cooperation, expresses the leadership of our cooperative movement. We will continue to be alongside Maurizio in this important role to accompany our cooperatives in the transitions they are called upon to face. Precisely in this historical phase in which the European Union promotes the Social Economy model, cooperation is called to play a leading role in all the sectors in which it operates, putting people and communities at the center of its action, and not the return on capital”.
Thus Francesco Milza, president of Confcooperative Emilia Romagna, comments on the re-election of Maurizio Gardini to the national presidency of Confcooperative, which took place this morning at the end of the National Assembly held at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. Around 800 delegates were present at the event, including 200 cooperators representing the cooperatives of Emilia-Romagna. Also leading the delegation, together with the regional president Milza, is the director of Confcooperative Emilia Romagna Pierlorenzo Rossi.
Yesterday, the deputy prime minister Antonio Tajani and the ministers Adolfo Urso, Raffaele Fitto, Maria Elvira Calderone and Alessandra Locatelli, as well as the CEI president and archbishop of Bologna card, spoke. Matteo Maria Zuppi.
Sixty-three year old agricultural entrepreneur from Forlì, Maurizio Gardini is president of Conserve Italia, the agri-food cooperative group based in San Lazzaro di Savena (BO) which brings together 39 first-level agricultural cooperatives present mainly in Emilia-Romagna. Conserve Italia holds symbolic brands of Made in Italy such as Valfrutta, Cirio, Yoga, Derby Blue and Jolly Colombani. In his report, Gardini put forward proposals to politicians to relaunch the country’s competitiveness: stop the “Lagarde tax”, the weight of the cost of money is unsustainable, in services only 1 in 2 companies manages to access credit; consolidate the cut in the tax wedge; investing in training and active policies to reduce the gaps in “paradox” Italy where the employment boom is counterbalanced by a very high number of inactive people equal to 12.3 million and NEETs equal to 2.1 million, in addition to the now structural lack of professional figures which slows down the competitiveness of businesses. Finally, the fight against fake companies of all types of companies that exploit 2.8 million workers and regularize the payment times of the PA.
