{"id":459959,"date":"2026-07-14T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/14\/eurodeputati-pd-su-electrolux-bisogna-intervenire-sui-prezzi-dellenergia\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:30:04","slug":"pd-meps-on-electrolux-action-must-be-taken-on-energy-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/pd-meps-on-electrolux-action-must-be-taken-on-energy-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"PD MEPs on Electrolux: “Action must be taken on energy prices”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cElectrolux\u2019s announcement of 1,700 redundancies, equivalent to 40 per cent of the group\u2019s Italian workforce, is the latest sign of the structural crisis in the household appliances sector.\u201d This was stated today (14 July) by MEPs from the PD in response to the Minister for Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso<\/a><\/strong>, who argued instead that \u201cEurope is the scapegoat of the moment.\u201d On 11 May, the Swedish multinational announced its intention to close a factory, cut production, and reduce its workforce in Italy by almost 40 per cent. Faced with a general crisis, the PD MEPs believe the solution lies in <\/strong>\u201ctaking action on energy prices, trade defence against dumping, and investment<\/strong>.\u201d <\/p>\n

Before Electrolux, \u201cwhich had already cut 1,500 jobs since 2022,\u201d the same fate had befallen \u201cCandy, whose historic Brugherio plant was closed following its sale to the Chinese firm Haier,\u201d the group noted. Added to these is Whirlpool, \u201cwhich, after taking over Ignis and Merloni, sold its plants to the Turkish firm Beko,\u201d carrying out \u201ca drastic restructuring.\u201d MEPs describe the situation as \u201ca sad reality,\u201d given that today in Italy \u201cthe sector employs around 13,000 people, half the number compared to the early 2000s\u201d. The situation is attributable<\/strong> on the one hand to weak demand and, on the other, to high production costs<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

MEPs state that the European market for household appliances \u201chas fallen from 90 million units in 2020 to 83 million in 2025.\u201d Against the backdrop of this decline, \u201cenergy, which accounts for 18 per cent of total costs, costs 45 per cent more in Italy than in China\u201d and \u201calmost 25 per cent more than the European average.\u201d The same applies to raw materials. These \u201caccount for 37 per cent of costs: European steel costs 31 per cent more than Chinese steel,\u201d while the price of glass has risen by almost 150 per cent. Among the consequences is a sharp decline in Italian household appliance production, which has fallen \u201cfrom 30 million units in 2010 to fewer than 10 million today.\u201d <\/p>\n

Therefore, according to PD representatives in Brussels, \u201cto tackle the crisis, action must be taken on energy prices<\/strong>: structurally, by prioritising renewables and moving away from dependence on gas; and as an emergency measure, through tools such as a cap on gas prices and the use of funds raised from a one-off tax on energy companies\u2019 windfall profits, to keep business energy bills in check.” Furthermore, resources derived from the ETS<\/a> market \u201cmust be used to support businesses and not lost to general taxation.\u201d <\/p>\n

As regards measures to combat dumping\u2014that is, unfair competition\u2014\u201cwork is proceeding at a rapid pace, in particular on the CBAM<\/a>, a European regulation requiring European importers to pay a price for the greenhouse gas emissions embedded in certain goods produced outside the EU, \u201cso that the safeguard introduced for steel is extended to semi-finished products and products with a high steel content,\u201d MEPs stated. Meanwhile, the principle of \u201cEuropean preference\u201d, provided for in the Industrial Accelerator Act, also known as the “Made in EU” criterion, is a measure proposed by the European Commission to promote production, innovation, and employment in the steel sector within the Union \u2013 <\/em>for certain basic products and the cleantech sector, \u201cit must also be applied to strategic manufacturing sectors, including household appliances,\u201d they added. <\/p>\n

“These measures may constitute a defence strategy, but they are not enough,” the group explained. Public and private investment is needed “to rise to the challenge of global competition, as also indicated in the Draghi report, through stronger institutions and joint investment.” Without a strong push for innovation and industrial restructuring, \u201cEurope\u2014which is the only place where this challenge can be tackled and overcome \u2014risks becoming trapped in intermediate technologies and losing many more jobs,\u201d they concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cElectrolux\u2019s announcement of 1,700 redundancies, equivalent to 40 per cent of the group\u2019s Italian workforce, is the latest sign of the structural crisis in the household appliances sector.\u201d This was stated today (14 July) by MEPs from the PD in response to the Minister for Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":459951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,30805],"tags":[31808,34847,30396,25916,34260,29899,34848,25755,33259,33260,26707,26102,34849],"class_list":["post-459959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-brief","category-industry-markets","tag-agenzia-dellunione-europea-per-i-diritti-fondamentali-en","tag-candy","tag-cbam-en","tag-cina-en","tag-electrolux","tag-ets-en","tag-eurodeputati-pd","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-industrial-accelerator-act","tag-made-in-europe","tag-pd-en-2","tag-stemand","tag-whirpool"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459960,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459959\/revisions\/459960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}