Italy and France are at war (and migrants are victims of a game bigger than them)

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Italy and France are at war (and migrants are victims of a game bigger than them)

The issue of the Aquarius ship is only part of a broader clash between Rome and Paris regarding the destabilization of Libya, the military yards and the Tav. A conflict in which migrants have nothing to do, but they are victims of a clash between two mirror-image and opposing realpolitiks. (Of Alessio Postiglione, LAWS)

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A remote-controlled Premier?

Of Marco Cedolin
A remote-controlled Premier?
Source: The corrosive

The new Di Maio-Salvini government has not yet been presented at the Quirinale and the clamor of the entire national and international piggery is already rising to the sky, indignant and worried about the bad turn that Italy would be taking towards her.
Sale lo spread, the stock markets go down, the leaders of the large EU countries are tearing their clothes, the entire mainstream press predicts unspeakable misfortunes, the Barnum circus of barnyard comedians spits venom, the parasites of non-profit organizations and cooperatives mutter, Both the center-right and the center-left now seem on the verge of a nervous breakdown....
Everyone has to say about everything, from the importance of the role of the future prime minister to the analysis of every single point of the sixty pages of the contract presented in recent days to the base of Lega and M5S voters. Even the controversial hypothesised blockade of the Turin-Lyon TAV manages to displease the rod and cement mafia greatly, fearful of seeing a cake that they already savored as much as NO TAV slip away before their eyes, not willing to "trade" the elimination of the work for the possibility of a crackdown on the business of wild immigration which evidently interests them at least as much as high speed.
In short, everyone is dissatisfied, everyone outraged and everyone worried, which unequivocally indicates that we are on the right path and it is desirable that we continue like this.
If Di Maio had built a government with the PD, by giving life to yet another petalous center-left executive, surely no one would have had anything to say. Just as no one would have had anything to say if the centre-right led by the impatient Berlusconi had created a government with the 5S.
Instead the Di Maio-Salvini combination is out, as well as by the will of the voters, even from the preconceived patterns of globalization and in a Western democracy this is unacceptable.

The entire mainstream press is currently working hard to mock and discredit the figure of Giuseppe Conte, the Prime Minister whom Di Maio and Salvini would have chosen as guide for the new M5S-Lega executive which every day is infuriating both the markets and the merchants of the future. The criticism that appears to be the most popular among all is that it is a remote-controlled prime minister, at the head of an executive that he did not choose, in simple words a “wooden head” placed there in plain sight to slavishly carry out someone else's orders and nothing more....
Not knowing MR personally. Giuseppe Conte and having never seen him at work it is honestly difficult for me to say whether or not he is a "wooden head", while I would like to say a few words about his predecessors and the orders mentioned above.
The Prime Ministers who have succeeded one another in recent years in Italy have been figures of the caliber of D'Alema, Berlusconi, Study Program, Monti, Read, Renzi and Gentiloni, It doesn't matter if they are wooden heads or something else, but all slavishly committed to carrying out every directive given by Brussels with meticulous care, without uttering a word that goes beyond yes sir and without caring in the slightest what the moods of their reference parties and much less their voters were, when they had them.
Mr. Giuseppe Conte was chosen to be the guarantor of a “government contract” and certainly if he becomes prime minister he will have to move among them 60 pages that have been discussed so much in recent days. Unlike its predecessors however, Brussels did not write the program it will have to guarantee, but the two parties that won the elections wrote it, attempting to create a synthesis between their respective programs and represents the will of the majority of Italian citizens who went to the polls, not that of Brussels, of markets and big finance.
Remote controlled or not, I think the salient point is the figure of the person or people holding the remote control
And in light of the facts, judge for yourself whether there are differences compared to the past.

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Infrastructure, the rumors and the Venetian lead

Image results for Venetian foothillsOf Marco Milioni

Hello dear readers,
I believe that these rumors that run along the Veneto-Rome axis could interest you. We talk about the infrastructure department…
The rumors come from Rome. As part of the formation of the new government led by the Northern League and Five Star Movement, some Venetian names would have been circulated for the infrastructure department, one of the most strategic. These are names that are not only eligible for the ministerial position, but also for that of undersecretary. The first is that of Silvano Vernizzi, today CEO of Veneto Strade, he was for a long time the extraordinary government commissioner for the Veneto Pedemontana. His choice would be at Lega quota but very well appreciated by Fi circles. Another name that is circulating is that of Massimo Colomban, former councilor for subsidiaries in the municipality of Rome in the M5S council, He has a past in the centre-right and would not be unwelcome to the League. The latest name circulating is that of Massimo Malvestio, well-known lawyer from Treviso, known for being one of Zaia's spin doctors, in his case his name would have been proposed without the interested party being immediately made aware of it. Rumors have already circulated among the M5S base that they would not have liked the three names because they were considered too close to the Venetian infrastructure establishment. In the Region that once belonged to the Serenissima, some more delicate games are being played in the field of great works. Just think of the conclusion of the MOSE, to the Marghera reclamation, to the canals for large ships and the Pedemontana Veneta, the Valdastico Nord and the Orte Mestre not to mention the Tav Brescia, Verona Vicenza, Padova. These are projects opposed by the M5S and instead by the League, in a coalition with the centre-right he has always supported it. As has been explained several times in the national press (from Fatto and Corsera first and foremost) right in Veneto, in terms of infrastructure, a crucial game will be played for the country, within which it will be important to understand how much the lobbies that operate behind the infrastructure sector will be able to make their weight felt on the unborn government.

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