Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

All the links between the Benettons and the left
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From former prime minister Enrico Letta (and above all by two of his collaborators), passing through the former minister Paolo Costa, here are all the connections between the Benettons and the world of the Italian left
Of Francesco Curridori
Between the “controlled” and the “controller” there are a series of revolving doors through which former politicians move very nonchalantly from the public to the private sector, as demonstrated by the Atlantia case-Benetton.
The most famous case, Claudio Antonelli from La Verità explains in a long article, it is that of the former prime minister Enrico Letta That, after being crippled by Renzi, In the 2015 he became a professor at the Paris School of International Affairs. But not only that. Also in that year he was appointed member of the board of directors Abertis, Spanish giant intertwined with Atlantia which owns the majority of Autostrade per l'Italia. And it is precisely the Benetton company that started a takeover bid to acquire Abertis last summer, together with the German ACS. In this regard Enrico Letta, Yesterday, he replied in the newspaper edited by Maurizio Belpietro, having joined the Abertis board of directors “at the end of 2016 when this was a Spanish company, and before the hypothesis of a takeover bid on the Italian side was raised". “From Abertis – you need the former premier – I went out, voluntarily resigning, and giving public notice last May, exactly when ownership changed with the entry of Atlantia”. A choice made "precisely to avoid possible conflicts of interest with my previous functions as much as possible". Read More

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Actuality | BERGOGLIADI

WHEN BERGOGLIO PHONED ENRICO LETTA, E PARTÌ L'OPERAZIONE "MARE NOSTRUM"…
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Of Marco Tosatti
The “Mare Nostrum” operation, which marked the beginning of the extraordinary wave of migration (some talking about invasion) from the African coasts, and in particular from Libya destabilized by Anglo-French-American aggression, had an exceptional sponsor. High-level sources from the Ministry of the Interior revealed this to Stilum Curiae, who were present and operational in the control room at the time. This is the revelation, which was witnessed by a high-ranking official of the ministry, retired today: the Pontiff (for six months, it was October 2013) he telephoned the then Prime Minister Enrico Letta to request an intervention from Italy. While it became known about a subsequent phone call, when the Letta government was in difficulty, of the interview of 2013 had not become known. Here is the story we were told, and which we report, sure of the solidity of the source.
“As is known, the exceptional migratory pressure that Europe e, in particular, Italy are experiencing originated between the months of October and November 2013 when, following the shipwreck of a boat full of illegal immigrants off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy unilaterally decided to launch Operation “Mare Nostrum” with the aim of collecting as many migrants as possible at sea, bring them to the national territory, have everyone apply for asylum and process them, rather than as illegal immigrants, as asylum seekers e, in fact, like real refugees. Read More

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