Real wars and paper wars
What the newspapers write and what they don't write about the war in Ukraine and beyond. Damato's Scratches
The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, a convinced pro-European, must have had his reasons in expressing his cordiality with Giorgia Meloni in the usual meeting he had with her and other government officials in view of the current European Council. To which the premier has decided to go, according to some media and political representations, in war gear rather than in the turquoise suit of the Quirinale and the Chambers, where she asked for and obtained the mandate she wanted.
Repubblica , the paper one, has attributed to the prime minister, practically in line with the controversial position of the Democratic Party, a "trial" against the European Union, other newspapers – from Avvenire to the dailies of the Monti Riffeser group – a "challenge" above all for the of criticism claimed against the Central Bank in the face of the progressive increase in interest rates adopted by the president Christine Lagarde. Which thus copes with inflation, making recourse to money more expensive, even at the cost of sending the euro area into a so-called technical recession feared in Rome by the outgoing governor of the Bank of Italy Ignazio Visco and in Frankfurt by the Italian representative in the executive of the European central bank, Fabio Panetta. Who will take over from Visco in the Bank of Italy in November. Two men – Visco and Panetta – certainly not far from both the head of state and the predecessor of Lagarde and Meloni, that is Mario Draghi. From which it is difficult to frankly expect temptations and anti-European behaviors.
Even in terms of the timing of the ratification of the ESM treaty, the European stability mechanism and the state-saving fund, which Meloni wants to reach only after having negotiated with Brussels on other issues, we certainly cannot speak of discontinuity of the current government compared to the previous one by Draghi. Who at Palazzo Chigi, without making the piddina component of his ministerial team uncomfortable, didn't spend so much to speed up ratification, knowing well the various facets of the problem.
Despite the helmet metaphorically affixed to Meloni's head leaving for the European Council at the end of June , Il Foglio is not entirely wrong in wondering – even after the heated controversy over the way in which the premier prepared for the mission, and the vegetables all Italians who arrived in the face of Lagarde in the cartoon by Emilio Giannelli today in the Corriere della Sera – whether those led by Meloni herself are more "brothers of Draghi or of Italy".
The only war really underway in Europe remains that of Ukraine over the Russian invasion wanted by a Putin who, after having escaped a coup d'état, at least closed the doors of the Kremlin to Cardinal Matteo Zuppi. Who, having already gone to Kiev, was sent to Moscow by the Pope who has never stopped betting on a peaceful solution to the conflict.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/guerre-vere-e-guerre-di-carta/ on Thu, 29 Jun 2023 06:56:39 +0000.