Pietro Benassi, who is Conte’s undersecretary to the secret services

The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the President Giuseppe Conte, approved the appointment of Ambassador Pietro Benassi as Undersecretary with responsibility for the Secret Services. Here is Benassi's full curriculum

The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of President Giuseppe Conte, approved the appointment of Ambassador Pietro Benassi as Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Benassi will be delegated the functions attributed to the President of the Council regarding the security of the Republic.

Benassi, with a degree in Political Science in Padua, is the diplomatic advisor to Prime Minister Conte . He is fluent in four languages: English, German, French and Spanish.

“National security is in short a matter known to Benassi. As you know, his more than cordial relations with the leaders of the Italian 007, from the general manager of Dis Gennaro Vecchione to the directors of Aisi and Aise ”, commented Formiche di Paolo Messa.

EXTRACT FROM THE REPUBLIC ARTICLE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF BENASSI:

Benassi has been his diplomatic advisor at Palazzo Chigi since 2018, present alongside the premier since the beginning of the "yellow-green" government with the Lega di Matteo Salvini. Grade "Ambassador", or the highest level among foreign ministry diplomats, Benassi had a career that formed him in a very complete way, prepared perhaps with few others to assume today what is a true "political" responsibility, to which arrives with an important technical background. He was ambassador of Italy to Germany and Tunisia, he was the head of the cabinet of the foreign ministers Bonino and Mogherini, he served the Italian diplomacy in Cuba, Warsaw, Brussels and Washington. Many now describe him as "very close" to Conte, as if he were part of his political current. But Benassi was simply the first diplomat the prime minister met. The two inevitably had to enter into total harmony, working on the dozens of very delicate dossiers (Libya, Europe, G7, Egypt) that the premier-lawyer saw explode on the table when he entered Palazzo Chigi. carried the weight of his experience. Europe first of all: in 2018 the ambassador returned to Rome after 4 years as Italy's representative in Berlin. Conte immediately offered his vision of how Italy should remain anchored to Europe, in Berlin and personally to Mrs. Merkel . Although at that stage the Italian government was at the peak of its anti-European charge, with the double Lega-M5S populism, Conte used Benassi to consolidate the bridges with Merkel. Preparing the pro-European turn that was then possible with the alliance with the Democratic Party. The “Ursula formula” in Italy had a first representative at the level of officials, and it is Piero Benassi. In the history of the Italian Republic there have been other diplomats who have held roles of coordination of the security services. The first was Francesco Paolo Fulci, director of Cesis who at the time coordinated the S ismi and the Sisde. Then Giampiero Massolo, former secretary general of the Farnesina. Renzi was appointed director of Dis, which is the department that coordinates Aise and Aisi according to law 124 of 2007 (the one that formalizes the institution of the delegated authority). They all managed to best combine diplomacy and intelligence work. The only one to have been a "delegated authority" was the former police chief Gianni De Gennaro at the time of the Monti government; but that technical government really lasted the space of a few months.

HERE IS THE CURRICULUM OF PIETRO BENASSI

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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/pietro-benassi-chi-e-il-sottosegretario-di-conte-ai-servizi-segreti/ on Fri, 22 Jan 2021 07:08:51 +0000.