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Pope Francis strips Parolin, Gentiloni tugs Conte, Bettini’s reshuffles and Biden’s trumpata

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Pope Francis strips Parolin, Gentiloni tugs Conte, Bettini's reshuffles and Biden's trumpata

Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start, not only on Pope Francis, Gentiloni, Renzi and Bettini

WE MUST

THE LOGIC VARIANT

THE TRUMPATA OF BIDEN

POPE BERGOGLIO DISPOSES OF PAROLIN

SHALL WE SHAVE?

WHISPER?

WE PRESS?

VIRAL NUMBERS

ORDER OUT

A BESTIAL PHYSICIAN

QUISQUILIE AND PINZELLACCHERE

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SUMMARY INTERVIEW OF THE CORSERA IN GALANTINO ON VATICAN FINANCES

“With this act, the Pope wanted to bring to completion one of the reforms of the Roman Curia that was most dear to him, and called for by many, the rationalization of the administrative-financial sector of the Holy See. Certainly, the story of the investment in the London property has made a journey that comes from afar more urgent ”. Thus Monsignor Nunzio Galantino, president of Apsa, in an interview with la Repubblica .

“Apsa – explains the prelate – is recognized as the only institution authorized in the Holy See to manage and administer the movable and real estate assets. The APSA is subject to stringent internal and external controls. The most immediate is exercised by the Secretariat for the Economy. The Secretariat of State stops doing it. It will act with its own budget, like all the other Dicasteries ”.

Has the Secretariat of State abused St Peter's Pence money? “This Motu proprio was not created to correct real or presumed distortions of the Secretariat of State. There are certainly parts concerning the Secretariat of State, but the text has a much more ambitious goal. The faithful have the right to know how the resources entrusted to us are managed. And we have an obligation to do it transparently ”. “Not only in the Church, but everywhere – he continues – it is said that everyone wants reforms but woe to those who seriously put their hand to it. I do not know of Cardinal Pell's relations with the Secretariat of State or with other Vatican bodies. I was somewhere else in those times. With this document, the Pope has indicated certain paths and times for implementation. There is no room for melina ”.

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LAUNCH OF AGI ON AN INTERVIEW BY GENTILONI

“Extraordinary procedures and preferential lanes” to speed up the Recovery Fund: this is the request made by the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Paolo Gentiloni, in an interview with Repubblica . "The distribution of the anti-Covid 19 vaccines and the Recovery Fund are a great opportunity to relaunch Europe after the pandemic but to ensure the success of the Recovery Plan Italy must introduce extraordinary procedures with laws capable of accelerating investments", he said the former premier.

"What is happening is exciting", underlined Gentiloni, speaking of the vaccination campaign in the 27 EU countries. "At the beginning of last March we worked for many days with the Commission to eliminate bans on the export of fans from some EU countries to others including Italy", recalled Gentiloni, "the starting point in the reaction to the pandemic was a total lack of solidarity.

Ten months on from then we have the EU negotiating, for all 27 partners, with pharmaceutical companies and which, having optioned 1.6 billion doses, is the major player in co-vax operations with the poorest countries, and it will immediately help vaccinations in neighboring countries, from the Balkans to North Africa. There is a newfound European solidarity and a leading role on a global level. Europe is, as a whole, the protagonist of the reaction to the pandemic on the collective health front ”.

“The Recovery Fund”, underlined Gentiloni, “was born from the choice not to respond to the crisis with austerity. Kristalina Georgieva, executive director of the IMF, has called on countries to spend 'what they can', the EU has responded with expansionary and supportive policies including the unprecedented decision to issue common debt for common objectives. it is a historic turning point but it must work by making our economies greener, more inclusive and more competitive. Because it is on the success of this decision – which associates an embryo of a common economic policy with the common monetary policy – that its replicability depends ”.

On Italy's delays on the Recovery Plan, Gentiloni explained that he was not worried by the “deadlines of these weeks, with respect to which there is no particular Italian delay”. “Rather”, he added, “I am thinking of the second half of 2021 and 2022, the risk of missing a historic appointment must be avoided. Quality of the plan and its implementation are challenges that could become very difficult ”.

“Given the experience we have in countries like Italy and Spain on the difficulty of absorbing European resources, this is a huge challenge because these funds must be committed by 2023 and spent by 2026”, underlined the former premier. “We therefore need extraordinary procedures and preferential lanes, which is an extraordinary effort. We cannot define the Recovery Fund as 'unprecedented' and then not make consequent decisions on ordinary procedures ”.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/papa-francesco-spoglia-parolin-gentiloni-strattona-conte-i-rimpasti-di-bettini-e-la-trumpata-di-biden/ on Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:20:39 +0000.