All the links between the Benettons and the left
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