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Oct
2024
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The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Vice-President, half of the factories producing cars in Italy are in crisis, at risk of closure. In Turin, Melfi, Pomigliano, Termoli, the workers of Stellantis, formerly GKN, we have thousands of workers in redundancy, an induced of about 100 000 workers in crisis. Looking to the past is useless. Of course, he won't come back. So let's focus on the future, on what we can do so that demand for consumption and production meet. This is the main problem today. The future of European mobility can only start from building electric cars for all citizens and not only for the rich. We need a chain of public investment made not only of cars, but also of buses and public and electric vehicles for transport, which provide supplies and, in the short term, can close that sector. gap Today there is a gap between supply and demand for electrical consumer goods. We therefore need a European sustainable and public mobility plan that encourages the use of electric cars for private mobility, including by saving factories, jobs and the climate. We need a European industrial policy, Mr Dombrovskis, we need a European fund to support electric cars. Europe has set the right goals. Now also put the resources to reach them.