Italian companies more robust in face of shocks says Istat - Business. Italian companies have proven to be proven "more resilient in the face of the shocks" posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Production system has grown stronger in the decade following the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and the debt crisis of 2012. One in four Italian companies were at risk if the Europeancentral Bank does not ease its tight fiscal and monetary policy, Istat said. The report indicated that following the rise in interest rates in 2022-23 24.7% of both healthy and more fragile enterprisescould become 'at risk' or'strongly at risk'