Italian steelworks in Saxony: “We can’t all just keep working less”

30 years ago, the Italian Giuseppe Pasini built a steelworks in Riesa, Saxony. Today he misses the enthusiasm of that time. A conversation about the right weekly working hours and his expectations of the new federal government.

It was Giuseppe Pasini's father who founded the steel company Feralpi in 1968 in Brescia, northern Italy. In one of those northern Italian industrial areas that are strategically well located: Milan to the west, the Adriatic to the east, Lake Garda to the north and even further to Brenner. It was then the son who took Feralpi to Germany more than 30 years ago and invested in Saxony. Today the company has a turnover of 1.7 billion euros. Pasini, 63, is sitting in his office in northern Italy, connected via Teams - and would like to give his opinion on a few things.