Luigi Bisignani at IL TEMPO: Matteo's secret plan

Image results for the man who whispered to the powerfulL’“man who whispers to the powerful” expresses his opinion in one of his usual Sunday letters to the editor of The weather, second newspaper of the capital. The reader will wonder why these sporadic spaces are given to those who are extremely distant from our positions in many respects. Well, after meeting him, the reason is easy to say: l’ “man who whispers to the powerful” can say things, sometimes, more interesting than others. No offense to those who don't whisper anything to anyone… On the contrary…(N.d.R.)
Of Luigi Bisignani
Dear director, Matteo Salvini, like a lion in the savannah, sniffs the air and prepares the next attack to conquer more and more territory. The first moves went better than expected and now that it has placed the immigration front at the center of the European debate, among other things, ridiculing Macron and taking Merkel's applause, can handle “from above” relations with his allies, Forza Italia and Brothers of Italy, who, in order not to be destroyed, will do everything not to turn him against each other. The Movement 5 position, weakened for a number of reasons, first of all the internal struggles between the Grillo-Di Battista-Fico group and the Di Maio-Bonafede-Casaleggio group that have been tearing it apart since they began to smell the scent of power, loses more and more consensus. With a savannah with such an arid landscape, the lion Salvini is secretly preparing his plan B: it will be taken, in one shot, those disappointed by Berlusconi, of Meloni but above all a part of that Grillino electorate who can no longer tolerate that summary justice and facade environmentalism that blocks investments and new infrastructures. Read More

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Harmful sanctions, the prime minister is right to be with Putin

Of Massimo Fini
Harmful sanctions, the prime minister is right to be with Putin
Source: Massimo Fini
The debut of the new Italian government in an international forum, the G7 in La Malbaie, Canada, it couldn't be more difficult. Our prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, he was in fact the first and so far the only European leader to have the courage, in his investiture speech to the Senate, to make some reservations on the sanctions that the United States, followed by Europe, they imposed on Russia for occupying Crimea.
There was an immediate refusal from NATO (which as everyone knows is an alliance for the sole use and consumption of the United States) through the declarations of its current and puppet Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the US ambassador to the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels, Bailey Hutchison. One of the objections to keep the point about these sanctions is that the laws of international law cannot be violated without being followed by adequate punishment. Ora, if there is a country that in the last twenty years has violated these rules and acted with the utmost contempt towards the UN, which represents all the states of the world and should be their defender, it's really America. When, for example, Serbia is attacked over the Kosovo issue (1999) against the will of the UN is then difficult, having created this precedent, attack Russia for annexing Crimea. Also because there is a substantial difference. Kosovo was outside the American area of ​​influence and very far from its borders, so much so that President Clinton to convince his fellow citizens of the goodness of that aggression, naturally justified in the name of the usual "human rights" ready for any use, he had to take a huge map and a wand, like a master, show them where this mysterious Kosovo was that no one in the States had ever heard of. Russia instead occupied a territory, in the Crimea, which if he really isn't Russian, However, he had always been a Russian speaker. Read More

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L'Euro che unisce i popoli europei

Written and reported by Maurizio Blondet

THE EURO THAT UNITES EUROPEAN PEOPLES

(I copy and paste:) Prime Minister Conte will cancel his visit to Paris. Foreign Minister Moavero summons the French ambassador (Macron masses troops on the border?). In Germany, Interior Minister Seehofer congratulates Salvini, and splits with Merkel. AfD is about to catch up with the SPD, electorally it will be the second party. “The difference between a change…
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The left reduced to the sole thought of the elites

Of Carlo Freccero
The left reduced to the sole thought of the elites
THE SELF-CRITICISM OF A CERTAIN LEFT (N.D.R.)
Source: The Manifesto
The left is in crisis today and is wondering how it could speak to the new populisms to lead them back to the tracks of an elitist democracy that resembles an oligarchy more than a democracy in the strict sense.
Vice versa, even when he says he wants to listen to the malaise of which populism is an expression, the left entrenches itself in the clichés of political correctness. While, In my opinion, an objective self-analysis would be enough to understand things from another angle. The question is what the left is today and what the left once was? Because there has been such a radical change? I already know the answer. We were wrong. What if we are wrong now?
In any case, reflect on what the left was at its origins, already contains the answer to the problem of populism today.
Before, right-wing populism didn't exist because many of the instances of today's populism were on the left. And the growth of people's rights was not considered reactionary, but progressive.
The great fracture on the left begins with the so-called third way and the complete surrender of progressives to neoliberalism. Since then we have been immersed in the single thought to the point of having lost the memory of ourselves. Read More

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Bannon: “Italy will be an earthquake for the EU, Merkel and Macron will fall like ninepins"

Image results for Steve Bannon in RomeOn the side Steve Bannon in Rome
Of Giovanni Coppola
Lately Steve Bannon he is spending a lot of his time in Italy. The former strategist of Donald Trump and leading animator of the “alternative rightIn fact, Americans look at our country with great interest. In a recent interview with the German newspaper The world, Bannon explained the reason for this interest: «Rome is currently the center of world politics. What is happening here is truly something special: until now, the world has never seen a truly populist government. Until now, precisely. And I absolutely don't want to miss this great event".
Steve Bannon, effectively, he has never hidden his sympathies for Matteo Salvini's League and Luigi Di Maio's M5S, that the former director of Breitbart see how «the saviors of Italy from yet another technical government». On the contrary, just like in an interview with New York Times, also to Welt Bannon confirms that he has maintained political relationships with the two populist leaders and their staff, Furthermore, that he advised them to form an alliance to form the government: «After the elections I met Salvini and I also had contact with Di Maio. I limited myself to recommending an agreement between the two parties, then the boys did everything. But I prefer not to say anything more about this.". Read More

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The new horizons of the Italian Parliament

of the Prof. Roberto de Mattei

The Conte government has obtained confidence, by a wide margin, in the House and Senate, but above all it was born with broad popular support. In fact, the polls attribute this to the two political forces that express it, Five Stars and League, about the 60% of suffrages. However, no government like this has been opposed by almost all of the Italian mass media.
Antonio Socci has well described this "universal prejudice" above Libero (3 June), while Marco Travaglio, are The Daily Fact (6 June), published a long anthology of the heavy judgments reserved for the nascent government by almost all the newspapers, left and right.
Conte was accused of being a «friend of the people like Marat» (Corriere della Sera, 18 maggio) and to prepare «a Venezuelan future» for Italy (The Sheet 16 maggio). «There is an Italian case in the West», wrote the director of The Press (27 maggio), while for the director of Republic, «the mixture of inexperience, improvisation and arrogance will not take long to emerge. Fasten your seat belts» (2 June).
This ideological factionalism has translated into violent intolerance towards the new Minister of the Family, Lorenzo Fontana, guilty of speaking out in favor of the natural family, protected by the article 29 of the Constitution, of having detected the existence of a demographic crisis in Italy and of having participated in the March for Life of 19 maggio. Read More

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FROM THE CHOICES FOR THE RAI BOARD A FIRST "BREAKTHROUGH" TEST

Paolo Conti for the “Corriere della Sera”

GIUSEPPE CONTEGIUSEPPE CONTE

The coincidence is technically perfect. The Conte government has just taken office and the 30 The Rai Board of Directors chaired by Monica Maggioni with the general direction of Mario Orfeo will expire next June. Il 7 May was approved, correctly on time, the budget 2017 with a profit of 14,3 million euros.

Meanwhile, il 31 the deadlines have expired in May, open the 30 April, to file the nominations for the future seven-member Council in Parliament, with the new rules: two elected by the Chamber, two from the Senate, two designated by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Ministry of’ Economy (absolute majority shareholder of Rai) and one elected by’ meeting of Rai employees. A brand new government that must immediately indicate the future leaders of public television: it has been said for decades that Rai is the mirror of Italian politics, and this time there are even ideal times. Read More

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Putin interviewed by Austrian TV ORF

Image results for PutinOf Vladimir Putin – 05/06/2018
Source: Aurora site
In view of the visit to Austria, the President of Russia answered the questions of the presenter of the Austrian ORF, Armin Wolf.
Armin Wolf, presentatore dell’Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF): Mr President, his first visit abroad takes you to Austria. This is a sort of incentive for a benevolent policy towards Russia on the part of the Austrian government, who lashes out against new EU sanctions and has not expelled Russian diplomats over the "Skripal case"?
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: I don't think that a European state as respected as Austria needs incentives. We have long had good and deep relations with Austria. Austria is our traditional and reliable partner in Europe. Despite all the complications over the years, our dialogue in the field of politics, of security and the economy has never been interrupted. Our trade with Austria has grown by 40,5% last year. We respect Austria's position and its neutral status. Russia, Obviously, is one of the guarantors of this status, having taken part in the drafting of the State Treaty. We collaborate with the Republic of Austria in various sectors: in the economy, like I said, in politics and security. In the economy, we collaborate in various sectors. Not just energy, although I would like to say more about it later, but also in aircraft construction, aviation safety and hydroelectric engineering. More and more Austrian capital is invested in Russia. We consider it a sign of confidence in the economic policy pursued by the Government of the Russian Federation. We take on important projects. Thanks to our cooperation, Baumgarten, and therefore Austria, it has become the largest gas hub in Europe. We have many common and similar interests, so we were happy to welcome Federal Chancellor Kurtz to Russia, in February. It is from these considerations that my visit to Austria is being prepared and I hope it will take place soon. Read More

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Orban's rise in Europe: Hungary as an alternative model

Of Lorenzo Vita
Orban's rise in Europe: Hungary as an alternative model
Source: The eyes of war
Viktor Orban has become, over the years, one of the most important leaders in Europe. And now, his message, begins to penetrate the entire continent.
The victory of John Jansa in Slovenia, ally of Orban, it is an unmistakable signal. Not so much in the numbers of the electoral victory, but in meaning. The group Visegrad, the one to which Hungary is part, has a new ally in Ljubljana.
And the merits of this victory are largely to be assigned to the Hungarian prime minister who was able not only to ride the wave of protest (particularly on migrant issue), but also penetrate the political debate. Clear messages, simple words, deep meanings. Like the last appeal addressed to the Slovenian people “Vote for the survival of the nation”.
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Nasce l'asse Salvini-Orban: ​"Così cambieremo l'Europa"

The Interior Minister and the Hungarian Prime Minister spoke on the phone. Salvini: “Working to change EU rules”
Of Claudio Cartaldo
Matteo Salvini e Viktor Orban. The two leaders defined “populists” today they spoke on the phone. The Interior Minister announced it at a rally in Fiumicino.
For Salvini the government Conte does not risk isolation abroad. Right, today there was the harsh controversy with Tunis for those words about”export of convicts” which the Tunisian ambassador did not like. But the secretary of the Northern League is certain that it exists “much appreciation abroad” mostly yellow-green. And if signs of a thaw have arrived from Germany and France (but from here to appreciation there is a long way to go), certainly the Northern League member will have no difficulty in finding agreements with Prime Minister Orban's Hungary.
Today I had a long and cordial phone call with the Hungarian Prime Minister – Salvini said – who wished us well in our work and with whom we will work to change the rules of this European Union“. Ecco, l’Ue. In tomorrow's speech to the Senate on the occasion of the vote of confidence, il Italian Prime Minister should try to reassure EU partners and at the same time mark the way for the reforms that the Grilloleghisti would like to impose on Brussels. And it cannot be ruled out that the Conte government will put the Northern European countries into action, or at least Salvini, can try to forge a strong bond with countries governed by Eurosceptic presidents. And Orban's Hungary isn't at the top of the list, who has been attacking that Soros for some time (Ong does not search) that these days – keep case – he is in controversy with Lega and M5S. But not only that. “I will probably speak to the French Interior Minister tomorrow, Austrian – the Northern League member said – today I contacted the Tunisian ambassador, I met the Israeli ambassador a little while ago, the US ambassador. We are trying to build a network of tranquility and security, of peace and the fight against terrorism“. Read More

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