It is a great pleasure to be here with you today, to welcome all of you to the 3rd Regional Credit Information Sharing (CIS) Conference. In particular, I extend a special welcome to representatives of central banks from various countries around Africa and from Mexico.
Enterprise and finance Italy’s entrepreneurs and workers have the skills and the energy to lift the pace of growth. In spite of crisis and recession, our business surveys of recent years have revealed great vitality in many enterprises. But those skills and those energies are fragmented. Italian firms, on average, are 40 per cent smaller than their euro-area counterparts.