In Italy a dispute has broken out between George Soros, the liberal billionaire activist as wellfervent Clinton supporter, and the anti-immigration League party, which on Friday formed a populist government in coalition with the M5S and whose leader, Matteo Salvini, he initiated the new Legislation as deputy prime minister and minister of the interior, pledging to deport hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.
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Of Nicola Barone
The hope is that «he can come to Italy as soon as possible, missing for too long. I wouldn't want the Italian people to think that you don't pay attention to them". As the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during the ritual greetings before the start of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. «Despite the delicate international context, we managed to confirm the high quality of our relationships. The solid friendship was confirmed despite the difficulty of the moment", adds the prime minister, convinced of wanting to explore "all the potential of our bilateral cooperation".
The group of those present at the table also includes Russian Foreign Minister Serghiei Lavrov, the Russian Minister of Industry and Commerce Denis Manturov, Kremlin foreign policy advisor Iuri Ushakov, the Italian ambassador Pasquale Terracciano and the diplomatic advisor to the Presidency of the Council Pietro Benassi. According to the Kremlin, the discussions also concern the prospects for our country's participation in projects for the supply of Russian gas to Europe via the Southern route. «We are counting on Italy to exploit the opportunities that Russia can offer in the future: we count on your active work to develop investments", For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin underlines as he sits next to President Conte during the meeting with Italian entrepreneurs from the largest companies active in Russia such as Pirelli, Enel, Tecnimont, Codest and others. Read More
The Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, arrived in Moscow. He reports it the Tass agency. The prime minister landed atVnukovo-2 airport. Conte will meet tomorrow Russian President Vladimir Putin. Economic reports in focus, with the signing of about fifteen agreements (despite the sanctions) , and then international issues, Libya in the lead, and Syria, Iran, Ukraine.
Yesterday, to the foreign press, Conte explained that the meeting with Putin "will be an opportunity to relaunch economic-commercial relations" and anticipated the signing of a series of agreements.
The Prime Minister reiterated his hope, already expressed at the G7 in Canada last June, making his debut on the international scene, that we will soon return to a G8 with Russia, in order to "be able to face and solve the problems that we currently struggle to resolve because we are not all around the table". “On sanctions – insisted Conte – our position is clear, they are not an end but a means, they are linked to the Minsk agreements but it is not with sanctions that the problems are solved". Read More
The EU attacks the yellow-green government. Salvini: “We have the consent of 60% of Italians”. And Conte receives the support of the US ambassador: “The elections in Italy have shown that the people have spoken”
Of Andrea Indini
L’European Union stick hard, the United States responds by shielding itself. While the Conte government is grappling with a difficult economic maneuver, that raising the bar of deficit/GDP ratio al 2,4% destabilizes relations with Brussels, unexpected support arrives from overseas.
By participating in a forum organized by’Ansa, the American ambassador in Rome Lewis Eisenberg he made a statement as banal as it is unpopular nowadays. “Regardless of how any of us think – he chanted – the latest elections in Italy have shown that the people have spoken. This is democracy”. An obvious thing that, but, certain European commissioners don't always keep this in mind. Read More
Of Rosanna Spadini
Source: Comedonchisciotte
At the beginning of the eighth chapter of “The Betrothed”, our Don Abbondio, what one cannot give oneself "courage", while he was casually reading a book, he happens to read the name of a philosopher by chance “Carneades who was he?”, which he knew nothing about, except that perhaps he had heard of it at least once along the way, useless course of his life.
Now we could say the same thing... what kind of animal is "politics".? A weeder that is disturbing just to mention, or a unicorn straight out of some sort of contemporary bestiary. If politics cannot be given courage, what is it for? Now it seems that the yellow/green government has plenty of courage, determined to free himself from the financial pockets he has been thrust into.
Demagogic maneuver said some barn owl on a media tour, forgetting that the DEF finally represented the affirmation of politics on finance, challenging the mesh of European vetoes and constraints, which have contributed to increasing the level of poverty in Italy, reduced to the bottom of the EU.
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The government is testing the budget law: “Flat tax and minimum income not alternatives, but we will keep accounts in order”
Of Chiara Sarra
“We will make Italians smile”. After the majority summit in view of the economic maneuver.
Luigi Di Maio reassures “the markets and above all families with unemployed children and parents who are unable to retire or have grandparents who have a minimum pension”.
“Citizenship income and flat tax are not alternatives”, promised the M5s deputy prime minister, speaking of the measures most dear to the two souls of the government. Just before a Radical Radio he had talked about one “Copernican revolution in spending Italians' money”: “All the available resources are starting to be spent on a country that for years has seen the money go to the banks and instead now it is starting to be spent on the Italians”, he explained. The whole thing – promises – “with a courageous budget law that will keep the accounts in order”: “The objective is to implement economic measures, do not challenge Europe on the accounts”.
The maneuver will still contain – they assure from Palazzo Chigi – all economic issues addressed by the contract. “Citizenship income must be included in the Budget Law, the overcoming of Fornero, aid to businesses”, Di Maio said, “All this is possible if we start changing the paradigm, if we put citizens at the center. Fare citizen's income in Italy it means helping businesses and artisans, because those people who will be the recipients of the income will spend money, she will be trained for new jobs and we will be able to reintegrate her by eliminating a part of poverty in Italy. That is the factor that is bringing us to a social condition where diversity is increasing”. Read More
“STATE ROSICONI”
GOVERNMENT APPLAUDED, LEFT BOOSTS. HE HAD NEVER SEEN HIMSELF AT A STATE FUNERAL.
At the state funeral, boos fly for the Democratic Party and applause for Salvini and Di Maio. The anger of the Renzians. And Anzaldi attacks: “The police immediately open an investigation”
Of Andrea Indini
“There would have been a noisy organized claque in support of the government”. In the aftermath of the funeral of the victims of dramatic collapse of Morandi Bridge in Genoa, the day before Michele Anzaldi is already ready to present a question to the Ministry of the Interior
After being inundated by whistles, the dems were convinced that what echoed yesterday in pavilion B of the Fair was not the case the anger of the victims of an announced disaster o, more generally, the anger from the Italians who they accuse the Democratic Party of having renewed the concessions to Autostrade per l'Italia, but one slap organized in support of the Conte government.
“But how can you think such things?”. Matteo Salvini is dismayed to hear the latest accusations made by the party which yesterday morning received a barrage of boos from the people present at the state funeral. As soon as Maurizio Martina and the former Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti arrived at the Fair to pay their homage to the families of the victims, have been inundated with criticism. This is because it is the Democratic Party that most blame i (continue) relations with the Benetton family That, through Atlantia, check Motorways for Italy. From former prime minister Enrico Letta to former minister Paolo Costa, passing through Romano Prodi and Massimo D'Alema, the liaison between democratic policies and toll booth business it has distant roots. “For the first time – Luigi Di Maio himself said to the microphones in recent days RaiNews – there is a government that has not taken money from Benetton, and we are here to tell you that we are revoking contracts and there will be fines for 150 million euros”. Rightly or wrongly, the people present at the funeral were convinced that they were partly to blame for the dramatic collapse of the 14 August can be attributed precisely to the party that has governed the country for the last five years. Read More
FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
Today the Government, through the competent Directorate of the Ministry of Infrastructure, formally forwarded the information to "Autostrade per l'Italia". letter of dispute which initiates the procedure for terminating the concession.
The Government accuses the concessionaire that he had the obligation to take care of the ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of the A10 motorway, the serious disaster that followed the collapse of the bridge. The concessionaire will have the right to send its counter-arguments within 15 days, without prejudice to the fact that the disaster is an objective and indisputable fact and that the burden of preventing it fell on the concessionaire who was responsible for the maintenance and custody obligations.
News has spread that Autostrade per l'Italia would be willing to rebuild the bridge at its expense. If this proposal is formalized the Government will evaluate it, but not as a counterpart to giving up the voice of all the victims of this enormous tragedy. If this bridge reconstruction initiative is charged to "Autostrade per l'Italia" it will only be as temporary compensation for damage, without prejudice to the wound inflicted on the victims, to their families and to the country is immeasurable and certainly cannot be healed in this way. Read More
FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
He will be a walk-on, but Giuseppe Conte makes an impression at Palazzo Chigi. So far in his seventy-day trip around the world he has never made a mistake, a phrase, a statement. The only gaffe belongs to his previous life, when he wrote CVs to bulk up a bit. Now there's no more need to argue, in two months he created an enviable CV, reality surpasses rumor. In his speeches perhaps he will keep to the obvious, on the generic, doesn't decide much, it merely entertains, repeat, simulate; but the little he said and the very little he did, he said it and he did it well, without ever going unbalanced. He kept himself on edge with a prodigious balancing act, than even the tightrope walkers at village festivals, those that in our Puglia we called tarall'e Zucchere. He managed not to displease Di Maio, Salvini and Mattarella, indeed he gave the impression of agreeing with each of them. It is Padre Pio's last miracle to demonstrate that nothing is impossible, even that a Count suddenly becomes prime minister, without firing a shot. And don't be attacked by anyone, print included. Read More
Of Maurizio Blondet
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Of course seeing John Bolton tamed while, on the way to Moscow where he brings an invitation from Trump to Putin, stops in Rome to invite our Prime Minister Conte to the White House, it makes a certain impression: a lot has changed in just a few weeks, and the change comes from Trump. The same one who in a few days turned the page with Korea...
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