Giorgetti disappoints the prophets of the apocalypse on Mes and beyond
What the Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, said and what he made clear. Paola Sacchi's note
The "Giorgetti" soap opera of the mainstream media, practically a sort of unique copy on the "opposition apocalypse", to use the words of the minister himself, on the rejection of the ESM, ends on Christmas Eve, before the two-day break without newspapers, with a decades-old classic: he went to his house in Cazzago Brabbia (Varese), he doesn't answer the phone. Although, to tell the truth, the owner of the Mef has always used the phone with journalists practically as an umbrella in Dubai, let alone now.
While the reactions of the opposition and the nearby media depicted disasters, a lonely, isolated, humiliated minister, like Italy, branded his party colleague, the economist, senator Claudio Borghi as "a pasdaran to return to the lira". , put FI's abstention (in any case against a reform of the ESM, "without EU controls", Antonio Tajani) practically on the same level as the actual collapse of the broad left field, with Giuseppe Conte who voted against the ESM, Giorgetti gave a long and very dense interview to Il Giornale on December 24th in which he launched a counter-attack with the opposition. He accused them of having hoped for the collapse of the Maneuver, of the Stability Pact, and therefore of having used the ESM, "that was all they had left". A certainty, already announced: "I am not resigning". A single, but very apparent, concession of form rather than substance to the words of EU commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, and that is the fact that when "an EU member makes a ratification commitment it may appear improper not to do so".
Gentiloni had said to Corriere della Sera : "Parliament is sovereign, but it is customary that agreements on international treaties signed by governments are respected". Giuseppe Liturri, recalling that approval for the ratification of the ESM reform given by the Conte/2 government at the end, replied on Startmag with "two considerations": "The first is that, according to Gentiloni, international law is based on customs and not on norms. In short, something similar to the fruit and vegetable market. So we would like to remind Gentiloni that international treaties follow a complex procedure, in which governments negotiate and parliaments approve". And, in any case, Giorgetti adds, reiterating: "But at that point the question was no longer economic but political". The minister attacks the opposition: “They have been preparing the apocalypse for months. Before they thought that everything would collapse with the Maneuver. But the rating agencies explained that we could hardly have done better in terms of prudence, responsibility and stability of public finances. Then, the Stability Pact also went in the right direction, some buzz but nothing more. All that remained was the ESM…".
No resignation, as he had already announced: "As long as the majority supports my approach to serious, credible and sustainable projects, I don't see why I should leave." Giorgetti claims the line of "maintaining a sustainable public finance profile". Going to the ESM, now a "bank-saver", "born in another historical phase", he reminds the opposition that "even the Draghi government had refused to present it to parliament, postponing its examination". And he observes: “At least we got to the vote. A point was finally made."
The head of the Mef clearly rejects the apocalypse cries of the opposition: "I don't think that Europe without the ESM in the bank-saving version runs serious risks of stability." Then, a stone is removed with other EU countries. To Osvaldo De Paolini who asks him why Germany, which is hammering the bank-saving ESM more than anyone else, as it has well-known difficulties, is nevertheless against the Banking Union, Giorgetti replies: "It's not just the Union that's on the table banking. Serious legislation would be needed but it is struggling to find champions in the Eurogroup rather than in Ecofin. The constituent spirit that would be needed is missing. Other than Mes. Here not everyone serves the interests of the Union. There are those who prefer to do their own business at everyone's expense."
As for the League, of which he is also deputy secretary: “No surprises. She has always been against the ESM." Tomorrow Giorgetti will be at the Chamber Budget Committee but will talk about the budget. The oppositions are waiting for him to unleash the apocalypse. But it already seems full stop.
The same Christmas message from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to an Italy that invites "pride" sounds like a clear further approval of the rejection of the ESM, awaiting new balances in Europe with the June elections. The majority squares up. But, in the meantime, the wide field has collapsed. Tajani himself to Matteo Renzi, in the vein of exegesis of Berlusconism, indirectly reminds us that Berlusconi wanted changes to the ESM, that is, that it responded to the EU bodies, starting with the European Parliament, as is the case for the ECB. Which, after apologizing for the words taken from off-air, the Italian group leader in the Senate, Maurizio Gasparri, points out to Renzi, rejecting "his little lectures on Berlusconism", even more so after that "game over", he reminds him, on the forfeiture of Cav. from the Senate.
While Giuseppe Conte, leader of the Five Star Movement, with the Corriere della Sera , attacks Meloni, describing her as "on the corner", but concludes by reminding the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein: "We have time to build a government alternative". Evident contradiction between title and conclusion, that is: the government moves forward.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/giorgetti-delude-i-profeti-dellapocalisse-su-mes-non-solo/ on Tue, 26 Dec 2023 07:23:53 +0000.