Bologna, September 14, 2026 – On the Ducati dossier “we are working on it.” Emanuele Orsini, national president of Confindustria, does not mince words, responding to those who asked him what he thought about a possible consortium of Italian entrepreneurs in case of Ducati leaving the Volkswagen portfolio.
The Volkswagen crisis
“We are doing everything to keep all companies in Italy, starting with Ilva, so imagine. Ducati is a pride for Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, one of our flag bearers – he specifies – Unfortunately, the disasters of the Green Deal have caused an industry like the automobile one, which had a hiring horizon of 100,000 four years ago,” to now be in difficulty.
“The Ducati brand is an added value for our land”
“We are making a catastrophe – he added – the sale of Ducati” by Volkswagen stems from that. “I hope that Italian entrepreneurs can still bring Ducati back home. We are working on it. Claudio Domenicali, who is an extremely capable person to be the CEO of that company, I believe he has clear ideas. We will give him all the support, the backing that there can be because he has done an excellent job and the Ducati brand, as we saw yesterday in MotoGP, I believe is an added value for our land, like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Dallara, like all the companies that generate the Motor Valley. So if we lose even these, it means that we have understood nothing”, Orsini concluded.
