Actuality | FIFTH COLUMN

Count of miracles
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FIFTH COLUMN
Of Marcello Veneziani
He will be a walk-on, but Giuseppe Conte makes an impression at Palazzo Chigi. So far in his seventy-day trip around the world he has never made a mistake, a phrase, a statement. The only gaffe belongs to his previous life, when he wrote CVs to bulk up a bit. Now there's no more need to argue, in two months he created an enviable CV, reality surpasses rumor. In his speeches perhaps he will keep to the obvious, on the generic, doesn't decide much, it merely entertains, repeat, simulate; but the little he said and the very little he did, he said it and he did it well, without ever going unbalanced. He kept himself on edge with a prodigious balancing act, than even the tightrope walkers at village festivals, those that in our Puglia we called tarall'e Zucchere. He managed not to displease Di Maio, Salvini and Mattarella, indeed he gave the impression of agreeing with each of them. It is Padre Pio's last miracle to demonstrate that nothing is impossible, even that a Count suddenly becomes prime minister, without firing a shot. And don't be attacked by anyone, print included. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

Who from Rai hurts, of Rai perishes
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Of Marcello Veneziani
Who from Rai hurts, of Rai perishes
Source: Marcello Veneziani
I don't know how the drama about the president of Rai will end, if Foa will remain at the helm anyway, perhaps as a senior advisor as happened in 2004 to Berlusconi's Alberoni or if Giampaolo Rossi takes over from him, competent in RAI and new media, in discontinuity with the previous Rai domination and in harmony with Foa's ideas. Maybe we'll figure it out today. But on a political level one thing can already be said: the final veto on a signature of Il Giornale as president of Rai is the worst conclusion of Berlusconi's parable. End up in resentment, burning Foa, align with the PD and the scattered left, separate from the League and the Brothers of Italy, only show the ability to cause failure, it is a miserable epilogue for Berlusconi. That decline that has been going on for years now, has reached a point of no return and breaking of B. with his people and his allies.
Nobody expected Forza Italia to align itself with the yellow-green government. That's right, and even useful, that Forza Italia maintains a critical line towards the economic choices of the Grillini, Di Maio's reforms, amateurism and underlying punitive pauperism, the grillosinistri type Fico or the half socks in power, genus Raggi. That opposition line responds to the nature of his voters, to the mandate received and to its economic and political line.
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Actuality | events

Behind the scenes on the Rai presidency
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While Marcello Foa declares to remain in his capacity “senior advisor”, the usually well-informed D'Agostino tells some interesting background, of which we were also partly aware (n.d.r.):
SALVINI'S HOSTILE OBSERVATION FOR "FORZA ITALIA": THE DOORS OF THE LEAGUE ARE OPEN FOR LOCAL ADMINISTRATORS WHO DECIDE TO QUIT BERLUSCONI – THE CAV, WHO WOULD HAVE WANTED TO MEDIATE ON FOA, HE WAS WITH HIS BACK TO THE WALL: TAJANI HAS THREATENED TO RESIGN IN CASE OF SURRENDER TO SALVINI – AND WITH HIM, IN THE FRONT ROW, GHEDINI WAS AGAINST THE LEAGUE – THE RISK OF APPOINTMENTS

1 – BERLUSCONI HELD, HIS PEOPLE REBEL AND TAJANI THREATENES TO RESIGN AS VICE

Amedeo in the Morning for “the Press”

salvini berlusconiSALVINI BERLUSCONI

Now the doors of the League will open, indeed they will open wide for the local administrators of Forza Italia. And according to the Northern League there are many who are knocking on Matteo Salvini's door, the "Captain" who has his political sails full of good electoral winds. While they see the floppy blue ones, with l’ Admiral of the’ former blue ship in disarmament, listless, little interested in the opposition naval battle in the yellow-green waters. So far l’ agreement between Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini was not to go to war: no openings to parliamentarians, to regional and municipal councilors. Read More

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Luigi Bisignani at IL TEMPO: Matteo's secret plan
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Image results for the man who whispered to the powerfulL’“man who whispers to the powerful” expresses his opinion in one of his usual Sunday letters to the editor of The weather, second newspaper of the capital. The reader will wonder why these sporadic spaces are given to those who are extremely distant from our positions in many respects. Well, after meeting him, the reason is easy to say: l’ “man who whispers to the powerful” can say things, sometimes, more interesting than others. No offense to those who don't whisper anything to anyone… On the contrary…(N.d.R.)
Of Luigi Bisignani
Dear director, Matteo Salvini, like a lion in the savannah, sniffs the air and prepares the next attack to conquer more and more territory. The first moves went better than expected and now that it has placed the immigration front at the center of the European debate, among other things, ridiculing Macron and taking Merkel's applause, can handle “from above” relations with his allies, Forza Italia and Brothers of Italy, who, in order not to be destroyed, will do everything not to turn him against each other. The Movement 5 position, weakened for a number of reasons, first of all the internal struggles between the Grillo-Di Battista-Fico group and the Di Maio-Bonafede-Casaleggio group that have been tearing it apart since they began to smell the scent of power, loses more and more consensus. With a savannah with such an arid landscape, the lion Salvini is secretly preparing his plan B: it will be taken, in one shot, those disappointed by Berlusconi, of Meloni but above all a part of that Grillino electorate who can no longer tolerate that summary justice and facade environmentalism that blocks investments and new infrastructures. Read More

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

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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Actuality | National Economy

In the Def stop VAT increase, resources from tax amnesties and spending cuts
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In the Def stop to VAT increase, resources from tax amnesties and spending cutsReport Wall Street italia
Of Mariangela Tessa

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Stop the increases in VAT and excise duties and propose the new public finance framework "quickly"., in compliance with the "European commitments on the 2018-2019 balances" but identifying the "priority interventions" in line with the programmatic indications of the speech for trust. This is what we read in the draft majority resolution on Def, which will be in the Chamber on 19 June.
Without interventions, the VAT increase will come into force from January 1st 2019, passing from 22% al 24,2%. According to rumors it is a 'light' version, at the moment the 'favorite', but it is not yet completely excluded that it could be integrated with some programmatic indications.
But how to avoid the VAT increase? According to reports The Republic:

“It's about catching up 12,4 billion to replace the so-called “escape clause” with fresh resources. The measures should be divided into four directions and follow, for now, the traditional trajectory of Italy's economic policy. In addition to spending reviews and cutting tax breaks, two difficult terrains on which many governments have run aground, part of the resources should come from the fight against tax evasion. The new ingredient will be the so-called “fiscal peace”: in fact a re-edition of the scrapping which should concern Irpef, IRES and contributions Inps. The operation, which will affect businesses and families, should be scaled with higher discounts for the lowest levels of tax debts".
Then there is the issue of flexibility on the deficit, raising the bar to 1.5% of Pil compared to the current forecast of 0,8%. Hence the need to address the issue at a European level, probably already in the Eurogroup and in the Ecofin planned on 21 and the 22 in Luxembourg.

As for instead the increase in excise duties (Petrol prices in Italy have reached the point of breaking through 2 euros per liter in some geographical areas) il Codacons has requested urgent intervention by the new M5S and Lega executive, which had declared in the government contract that it wanted to eliminate the anachronistic components of the excise duties on petrol.

“The Government had promised an intervention on the excise duties on fuels, but so far no measures in this regard have been announced – he declared Carlo Rienzi, president of Codacons – . Salvini and Di Maio must intervene urgently because increases and speculation on fuel have negative consequences on the entire national economy. Just think that without the burden of taxes, Italy falls from second to 17th place in Europe due to high diesel prices”.
http://www.wallstreetitalia.com/nel-def-stop-ad-aumento-iva-risorse-da-condoni-fiscali-e-tagli-alle-spese/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter:+WallStreetItalia&utm_content=13-06-2018+nel-def-stop-ad-aumento-iva-risorse-da-condoni-fiscali-e-tagli-spese+primo-piano

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Bannon: “Italy will be an earthquake for the EU, Merkel and Macron will fall like ninepins"
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Image results for Steve Bannon in RomeOn the side Steve Bannon in Rome
Of Giovanni Coppola
Lately Steve Bannon he is spending a lot of his time in Italy. The former strategist of Donald Trump and leading animator of the “alternative rightIn fact, Americans look at our country with great interest. In a recent interview with the German newspaper The world, Bannon explained the reason for this interest: «Rome is currently the center of world politics. What is happening here is truly something special: until now, the world has never seen a truly populist government. Until now, precisely. And I absolutely don't want to miss this great event".
Steve Bannon, effectively, he has never hidden his sympathies for Matteo Salvini's League and Luigi Di Maio's M5S, that the former director of Breitbart see how «the saviors of Italy from yet another technical government». On the contrary, just like in an interview with New York Times, also to Welt Bannon confirms that he has maintained political relationships with the two populist leaders and their staff, Furthermore, that he advised them to form an alliance to form the government: «After the elections I met Salvini and I also had contact with Di Maio. I limited myself to recommending an agreement between the two parties, then the boys did everything. But I prefer not to say anything more about this.". Read More

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FROM THE CHOICES FOR THE RAI BOARD A FIRST "BREAKTHROUGH" TEST
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Paolo Conti for the “Corriere della Sera”

GIUSEPPE CONTEGIUSEPPE CONTE

The coincidence is technically perfect. The Conte government has just taken office and the 30 The Rai Board of Directors chaired by Monica Maggioni with the general direction of Mario Orfeo will expire next June. Il 7 May was approved, correctly on time, the budget 2017 with a profit of 14,3 million euros.

Meanwhile, il 31 the deadlines have expired in May, open the 30 April, to file the nominations for the future seven-member Council in Parliament, with the new rules: two elected by the Chamber, two from the Senate, two designated by the Council of Ministers on the proposal of the Ministry of’ Economy (absolute majority shareholder of Rai) and one elected by’ meeting of Rai employees. A brand new government that must immediately indicate the future leaders of public television: it has been said for decades that Rai is the mirror of Italian politics, and this time there are even ideal times. Read More

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We are all fascists?
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Related imageOf Danilo Quinto
Of the new Government and Salvini Minister of the Interior, PD and regime newspapers only know how to say and write "They are fascists". It is proof that they have no arguments. They live a lie. They are the shame of this country, together with Berlusconi, announcing the no-confidence vote sight unseen. They will be paved at the next elections. Because of this, they are afraid.
I expect Salvini to take immediate measures to address the first problem Italy has been experiencing for at least ten years., with the complicity of a good part of its ruling and political classes, of the media system and the Catholic Church, starting with Bergoglio and the Italian Episcopal Conference, with their beggarly do-goodism, which subverts the early teaching of Jesus Christ, on the conversion and salvation of souls, with the Misericordia molasses, which means dissolution, as St. Thomas Aquinas warned, if not accompanied by Justice.
The campaign launched by Emma Bonino, “I was a foreigner – humanity that does well”, to which Bergoglio gave his political support, it is a campaign of dissolution of Italian and European identity. The high degree Freemason Coudenhove Kalergi, founder of Paneuropa, he wrote: «the inhabitants of the future United States of Europe will not be the original peoples of the Old Continent, but rather a sort of sub-humanity made bestial by racial mixing […]. It is necessary to crossbreed European peoples with Asian and colored races, to create a multi-ethnic herd without quality and easily dominated by the elite in power. The man of the future will be of mixed blood. The future Eurasian-Negroid race, extremely similar to the ancient Egyptians, it will replace the multiplicity of peoples, with a multiplicity of personalities". Read More

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L'aiutino americano al governo populista
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Image results for Steve Bannon and SalviniThe famous "markets" voted pro

“Tuesday evening, Wednesday and yesterday too. The large American funds have started massive purchases of Italian government bonds. The "buy" was initially triggered by the algorithms that read the breach of the downward threshold and activated the automatic operations.
Bridgewater, Aqr, Glg e Ahl I'm in the front row, but to swell the group, after the outposts, Of Citi e Jp Morgan, they started yesterday Blackrock, Pimco, Prudential e Dodge & Cox.
All funds ready to enter phase two of purchases: wait for volatility to stabilize downwards to plunder titles at discounted prices.
Who they work for, especially investment banks such as Citi and JP Morgan, it is not known.
They are in fact primary dealers who act on behalf of third parties.
American pension funds are certainly interested in our depreciated debt, but also the English ones. The first effect of the massive American entry was to balance yields and mitigate the trend of the spread on the German bund downwards.

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