Counterbalance the French of Thales, shareholders of Naval Group, in the subcontracting of defense systems in the future Italian-French hub of civil and military shipbuilding that is about to be born from the union of the forces of Fincantieri, Stx (the company of the shipyards of Saint Nazaire ) and Naval Group: this is the objective of Leonardo, the aerospace and defense group, which your Ad Alessandro Profumo is trying to bring into the field.
The match is difficult but it is strategic in the field of defense electronics and missiles and yet time is short because the naval pole should take off on September 27 on the occasion of the Italy-France summit with President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni.
But the obstacle is not only represented by the tight deadlines but by the resistance of the French and by the difficulty of finding new balances in a pole that is already very complicated both for the shareholding structure and for the governance. This is why Profumo has already tried to sensitize the Italian government, from Gentiloni to Calenda, Padoan and Pinotti. But while the French team up, Italy has not yet found a common line and the CEO of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, does not seem to welcome the incursion of Profumo and Leonardo.
