Palazzo Chigi

States VS markets: here is the world to come

11 October 2018 by admin

Of Guido Salerno Aletta
States VS markets: here is the world to come
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Dall’ Italy to China passing from Germany to the USA: not exactly mainstream conversation with l’ economist Guido Salerno Aletta (edited by Giacomo Gabellini)
For several days, general attention has been focused on the Economic and Financial Document (Def) launched by the Conte government, but the Italian case certainly does not represent the only factor destined to heavily influence the performance of the world economy, which is weighed down by numerous unknowns, starting from the explosive rise of China and the political line adopted by the Trump administration. We talked about all this with the economist Guido Salerno Aletta, former general director of the Ugo Bordoni Foundation and former deputy general secretary of Palazzo Chigi.
In his recent article, you expressed the opinion that the current confrontation between financial operators and the Italian government represents a battle of the great clash between States and markets. What led you to reach such a conclusion? How do you think this clash will evolve?? Read More

Actuality | National Economy

Flat tax and minimum income, what will be in the maneuver

5 September 2018 by admin

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

Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

All the links between the Benettons and the left

20 August 2018 by admin

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

Policy | Non-fiction

L'Avvocato d'ufficio

24 May 2018 by admin

We welcome this article for its sagacity and probable realism’ “man who whispered to the powerful” (from the title of his latest book), recently to Verona (photo on the side, outside the Capitolare Library) for the presentation of Mauro Mazza's book “Bergoglio and prejudice”, where we were able to get to know him and collect some political anecdotes dating back to the Andreotti era. To understand each other, he is the one who wrote about the probable Lega-M5S government agreement three years ago
Of Luigi Bisignani
Prime Minister Conte accepts the assignment from Mattarella: "I will be the defender of the Italian people" But after a very long conversation at the Quirinale he bows to Europe and the list of ministers.
Dear director, Read More