The EY Attractiveness Survey Italy – Foreign Investments back on track stands out as a key tool to analyse Italian attractiveness to foreign investments in relationship to other European countries. The latest report is based on data collected in 2016 and it has given quite remarkable results. In fact, Italy ranked 16th in the European investment chart having 89 projects backed by Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Compared to 2015, Italy has registered 62% increase in FDI, which is an outstanding achievement among “mature economies”. In general, Italy has performed even better than the UK, Germany, France and Spain.

The EY report has also highlighted an improved situation regarding Italian labour market: FDIs have created 2.654 new positions in 2016, determining 92% as general growth. Fellow European countries are still the major investors in the Bel Paese, followed by the US, which can also be considered as a major foreign investor (27%). Chinese investments are still marginal at the moment (2%) but experts envisage a future significant growth.