Mattarella says rise in immigrant artisans is wealth

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 27 - President Sergio Mattarella said Wednesday that a rise in immigrant artisans in Italy was a source of wealth.
    "The increase in artisans among immigrants is a positive sign," Mattarella told the General Assembly of Confartigianato in Rome.
    "It helps to enrich and keep alive skills and professions that can reactivate circuits at risk of interruption.
    "It develops talents, innovates products and markets. "Social interlocutors, intermediate bodies, such as your association, alongside an activity of representing interests, express a valuable function as a social actor".
    Mattarella added that discussions between institutions and social partners is needed.
    "There are challenges that concern concrete choices and I hope that the discussion between institutions and social partners, between the various levels of institutions and intermediate bodies, is always open and constructive," he said.
    "As should be the dialogue on your part with the trade unions".
    (ANSA).