The CEO of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, in a hearing at the Senate Industry Commission spoke about the recent strategic alliance with France. Alliance that has raised not a few discontent among insiders and public opinion.
An "agreement for growth", without overlapping ", certainly not" for a restructuring "but" to enter this new dimension through the main door. We will have our say all over the world, with the French we will set up a group that will be the first in the world ”, orToday the control is Italian thanks to a 1% loan from the French state: "Then they say that the Italians are Byzantines, but also the French", comments Bono: "It's a twelve-year loan, but in the meantime we have to make a global agreement and then it will disappear ”. Meanwhile, "our resistance" before the new Italian-French agreement that will lead to the definition of a new plan for integration with Naval Group "by June" ("We hope to conclude the whole operation by 2018", says Bono), “Led the French to put the military on the plate alongside the civilian”. And on the development of the final structure, the CEO of Fincantieri says: “We will defend ourselves well. We will defend ourselves on the divisions at a more operational level, on how to direct policies ”. For the joint governance of the future Italian-French group, the CEO of Fincantieri sees the Stm model well: “It is a mechanism that works”. Participation will be equal but "does not mean 100%", he adds: "The rest goes on the market".