Draghi’s legacy for Meloni, Letta, Conte and Calenda
What has Draghi to do with the repudiation of the Euroscepticism of the Italian parties. Federico Guiglia's notebook
It was the day of the presentations – of new understandings, programs and symbols – and bipolarism is multiplying by two.
In addition to the center-right, who unveiled the 15 points of the "program for Italy" and the center-left who showed the new emblem of the Democratic Party, announcing an electoral ride along the boot with an electric mini-bus, here is Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi find the agreement for the third pole in the name of reformism and the reference to the disappointed of the two sides. Giuseppe Conte also wants to be part of the game and, waving his citizenship income, already shows that the M5S controversy will not spare any of the contenders.
On balance three men – Letta, Calenda and Conte – and a woman, Giorgia Meloni, run around Palazzo Chigi. But the home clash, and it is the first novelty, reveals the more European implication of all the previous electoral campaigns, as evidenced by the references inserted next to the coalition marks and the objectives listed in black and white.
By force or by love all the challengers have understood, and therefore they are proposing each in their own way, that the European Union is our destiny. A choice that is far from obvious after Euroscepticism, especially on the right side, exhibited in the past. The turning point is the evident result of the legacy of Mario Draghi and his 17 months of economic Europeanism and strategic Atlanticism, to which Meloni, who has always been in opposition to the Prime Minister, today reconnects with realism to reassure Brussels and Washington in case of victory: Italy will continue the path taken by Draghi.
The path of the third pole of Action and Italia Viva appears to be very marked to continue Draghi's policy across the board in the hope that he will still lead it. A policy that the Democratic Party is preparing in the meantime to relaunch under the profile of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan to be implemented without hesitation. If Berlusconi thinks of retirees (the minimum at a thousand euros for everyone), Letta aims to rebalance the salaries of teachers at a “European” level.
Taxes and resources will therefore be another fundamental and conflicting issue on 25 September, the day of choice.
(Published in the Arena di Verona, Il Giornale di Vicenza and Bresciaoggi)
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/mario-draghi-eredita/ on Sat, 20 Aug 2022 05:58:11 +0000.