No machete: Crosetto confirms the former Pd Latorre to the Defense Industries Agency
The Meloni government has confirmed Nicola Latorre at the helm of the Defense Industries Agency, an in-house body of the department headed by Guido Crosetto
Defense Minister Guido Crosetto confirmed Nicola Latorre (former Pd senator and former president of the Senate Defense Commission) at the helm of the Defense Industries Agency.
On December 16, the Council of Ministers approved the confirmation of Nicola Latorre as director general of the Defense Industries Agency (Aid), reads the press release from Palazzo Chigi. The Aid (body governed by public law supervised by the Minister of Defence ) which manages the many industrial units of the ministry.
In October 2020 the then minister Lorenzo Guerini (Pd), Crosetto's predecessor at Palazzo Baracchini, had in fact proposed Nicola Latorre to lead Aid, thus succeeding Gian Carlo Anselmino (formerly Finmeccanica), in office since 2014.
"The trust", commented the director general Latorre, "that the Minister of Defense and the entire Council of Ministers has confirmed in me and for which I am grateful, encourages us to continue the work aimed at consolidating the role of the Agency as a strategic asset of our defense system”.
So Latorre will continue to lead the Agency until 6 September 2023.
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WHAT IS THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIE AGENCY
As can be read on the website , Agenzia Industrie Difesa (Aid), a public law body supervised by the Minister of Defence, was set up in 2001 to manage the Production Units entrusted to it with an industrial and commercial approach and lead to a balanced budget reorganization of the technical-industrial area of the Ministry of Defence.
The agency includes nine production plants owned by the Ministry of Defence, including the chemical-pharmaceutical plant in Florence mobilized for the Covid-19 emergency with the production of disinfectant gel.
The objective of the in-house defense body is "the creation of economic and social value for the state and the community" through the "enhancement of its personnel and its skills and develops new products and services".
THE CONFIRMATION OF LATORRE AT AID
Minister Crosetto therefore confirmed Nicola Latorre at its helm last December.
"Thanks to the commitment of the Agency's employees, we have increased our production to better serve our Armed Forces, we have encouraged generational turnover, we have signed important agreements by building industrial partnerships with the main companies in the sector, always with the precise intent to further qualify the Agency and its Establishments as strategic for the Defense System. Starting from the operating results achieved”, declared Latorre, “we can now aim at new and more ambitious development goals”.
Yet the center-right raised its antennae in the aftermath of Senator Latorre's appointment as general manager of the Defense Industries Agency in 2020. "After the appointment of Nicola Latorre as head of the Defense Industries Agency, the Court of Auditors wanted to see clearly: examined the Curriculum Vitae of the Senator from Dalemia to understand his real managerial experience” Il Giornale reported two years ago.
The objective of the Court of Auditors was to "want to explain the managerial experience possessed by the interested party with greater clarity and detail".
The analysis carried out by the accounting magistrates was silenced with the reply of the Ministry of Defence. In fact, the dicastery underlined Latorre's past as President of the Senate Defense Commission, a position he held between 2013 and 2018.
WHO IS NICOLA LTORRE
Nicola Latorre, born in 1955, current director of Aid is also a lecturer in Italian foreign and defense policy at the Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.
In 1972 he joined the Italian Communist Youth Federation, the youth organization of the Italian Communist Party. In 1991 he joined the Bolognina turn of the Democratic Party of the Left, to then join the Democrats of the Left in 1998 at the turn of Massimo D'Alema, and finally joined the Democratic Party. He was considered very close to the positions of Massimo D'Alema, reports Wikipedia . From 1998 to 2000 he was Head of the Secretariat of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, during the government led by Massimo D'Alema.
In 2005 he was responsible for institutional policies in the national secretariat of the Democrats of the Left. Then Pd parliamentarian and president of the Defense Commission of the Chamber. Elected senator in 2008 and 2013 on the Pd lists. In 2013 he was then elected president of the Senate Defense Commission.
THE RENEWAL OF AID ACCORDING TO LATORRE
In an interview with Formiche.net in April 2021, Nicola Latorre illustrated the renewal taking place in the Defense Industries Agency under his direction. "We want to improve and revitalize industrial plants, to offer the country and the defense system increasingly quality support". On the other hand, "the Agency has entered the phase of economic management which requires the assumption of an effective plan for the achievement of strategic objectives" highlighted Latorre.
The margins for growth, noted Latorre, "are very broad, in particular through the intensification of the partnership with the other players in the national system, first of all with the key stakeholders, Leonardo and Fincantieri, and then with the other companies in the sector, with which we hope to be able to develop new collaborations within the existing ones". In summary, said the director general of Aid, "we propose ourselves as an element of support for the development of the system".
And Defense Minister Crosetto must have been convinced by the work done so far to reconfirm Latorre in the role of general manager of Aid.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/macche-machete-crosetto-conferma-lex-pd-latorre-allagenzia-industrie-difesa/ on Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:31:45 +0000.