Quirinale

Of Alberto Negri

Source: Alberto Negri

Expelled from the Quirinale gate, Italian populism could transform into an unprecedented wave of nationalism in a country that has always demonstrated little attachment to the flag and a much greater attachment to the wallet, which today languishes. Mattarella leads Paolo Savona, an elderly and esteemed gentleman who allowed himself to be exploited by the crafty Matteo Salvini, it was a masterstroke to repel, at least for the moment, the Cinquestelle from the control room, but it could turn into a boomerang.

Go back to the fall of Gaddafi to understand

Italy remains a vulnerable country inside and above all outside, on markets and in foreign policy. Also vulnerable to the theories of an international conspiracy by the European and internal establishment to defend the euro, sometimes cited inappropriately as the father of all Italian troubles. But we must always find a culprit to justify our ignorance. There is no conspiracy, for the moment, but the evidence of the facts. Italy has been a fragile country since 2011 France, Great Britain and the United States decided to eliminate Colonel Gaddafi, its most important ally in the Mediterranean than just six months earlier, il 30 August 2010, had received with great fanfare in Rome, signing contracts worth tens of billions and relying on the Raìs for the control of migratory flows. Not only did Italy not defend it but it bombed it, giving in to the blackmail of its NATO allies who threatened to attack Eni's terminals.

It was Italy's biggest defeat since the Second World War. The consequences were devastating: colossal monetary losses and a wave of migration that, year after year, it destabilized the political framework of the country. From that 2011 Italy's allies and competitors have undermined our interests, leaving us alone and adrift. While yesterday in Rome the most lacerating political crisis of recent years was taking place, Emmanuel Macron has called an international conference on Libya for tomorrow in Paris which "will take place under the auspices of the United Nations" to set the date of the elections. Read More