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Crosetto yanks Webuild, Massolo beats Riad, Stagnaro fulminates Lega, Pd and M5s, Travaglio&Gomez march

Crosetto yanks Webuild, Massolo beats Riad, Stagnaro fulminates Lega, Pd and M5s, Travaglio&Gomez march

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EXTRACT OF THE CORRIERE DELLA SERA INTERVIEW WITH MASSOLO ON EXPO2030

The proud look, despite the bitterness of the defeat, reveals all the disappointment of Giampiero Massolo, president of the Expo promoting committee, great weaver of the match which ended in the worst possible way for Italy.

Ambassador Massolo, do you think something was missing in the way Rome conducted the Expo campaign?

«No, I don't think we could have done more. We fought on the basis of a proposal recognized as the best not only for the way in which the topic was expressed, but also for the broad consensus. We have taken all our steps in close coordination with the government, local institutions and representatives of civil society. We have presented an excellent project with a legacy for the future that we hope can be partly realized for the city."

How, then, do you explain the meager haul of just 17 votes?

«The reality is that two-thirds of the international community voted for mercantilism, transactional diplomacy instead of transnational diplomacy. When we tested the waters to understand what the orientation was, some delegates told us that they had been engaged with our competitor (Riyadh, ed.) since 2020, when no project yet existed. The question is: is the competition based on substance, on the quality of the proposal or on investments and large companies?".

In fact, however, Italy's consistency with the values ​​of a Western democracy has not paid off.

«Investments also count, this is obvious, but a volume has been reached such that tomorrow if a somewhat casual emerging country applies, the competition will become out of reach».

Until shortly before the vote, Rome could count on around fifty preferences, how is it possible that they dropped to 17?

«In fact the numbers don't add up partly due to the double-dealing of some countries, partly because I imagine there was pressure at the last minute. Such an overwhelming outcome makes you think… we also talked about it with the Koreans, with whom we had informal coordination, and no one expected such a result."


This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/crosetto-pizzica-webuild-massolo-mazzola-riad-stagnaro-fulmina-lega-pd-e-m5s-travagliogomez-sfilano/ on Wed, 29 Nov 2023 08:38:26 +0000.