Ukraine, reconstruction plans | Wired Italy

while theUkraine is affected from the most massive missile attack for a month now, which has left millions of people without electricity and heating, the Italian business world must ask itself about the opportunities that present themselves while the war crisis is still ongoing. The reconstruction in Ukraine, at the moment, is painted in gloomy colors and the country, according to the Italian ambassador in Kyiv, it is sustained above all thanks to aid from Western countries.

This is what emerged from a conference sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Unioncamere and Assocamerestero, as well as other important Italian and Ukrainian institutions. For Walter Togni, share Lega, presides over the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Ukrainewhich was based both in Turin and in Kyiv, the latter mass out of use since the war. Togni recalls with “emotion” his “collaborators connected by a bunker in the first days of the conflict”. A quantified disaster, according to the World Bank, in about $350 billion in damages: an account that shows no signs of diminishing.

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Interchange

What will Italy do, which of Ukraine, before the Russian invasion, was the third partner among the countries of the European Union, with a interchange of about $5.4 billion? Adolfo UrsoMinister for Enterprise and Made in Italy, in a message read by Togni recalls that his dicastery has allocated over 100 million euros for small and medium-sized national enterprises damaged by the conflict: aid in the form of a grant.

Almost a thousand Italian companies exported to Ukrainerecalls Andrea Prete, entrepreneur and president of Unioncamere, “and these will be a starting point for the future“. Priest describes the Ukraine he knew as “a very lively country, in strong growth… fallen into a terrible tragedy at the hands of a tyrant and of his initiative against nature”. Fundamental, she says, is to continue collaborating despite the bombs.

For now, the agency for the internationalization of Italian companies (ICE) is returned from 3 October on Ukrainian territory, through a nucleus set up at the antenna of the Italian embassy in Lviv. He will take care of giving support to the companies they have ongoing activities or initiatives in the Ukrainian marketshare useful information with operators wishing to enter that market and resolve bureaucratic flaws in difficult times, ensuring continuity with the past. “Ukraine never stopped – they explain from the Ice -. In July, trade was 1.8 billion euros, certainly halving compared to 2021, but those were different times, and we still export precious consumer goods”.