Scarecrow over Pnrr funds between Musk’s Starlink and the government?
Indiscretions and considerations on the sidelines of the TIM document entitled "Moscow's use of Starlink"
Dear director,
you've been screwed then: La Stampa revealed this morning that the report that Start Magazine reported on yesterday ( Starlink helps Moscow? The Italian report that infuriates Musk ) was developed in Tim's house.
Maybe you will tell me that you were doing further checks to verify whether the authorship of the document was really Tim's. However, I can also confirm it for you: it was written in Tim. I saw it because it was sent to me by a retired friend who worked in the Services, and I tell you frankly: rather than a real report it seems like an in-depth analysis or a focus from a press review, given that the document is based on a significant amount of links and references to articles in the foreign press.
But, if you allow me, this is the least interesting aspect. Because I made some phone calls in government, financial and associative circles and what emerges is this: after an initial meeting in which Starlink's emissaries participated in a meeting with representatives of ministries, the expectations of the company headed by Elon Musk did not they would have had a sequel. Also because the Muskians (according to the anti-Muskians) were secretly aiming – in fact, even if it was never made explicit – at the PNRR funds for broadband. Malignancy or plausibility?
I am not an expert in ultra-modern technologies, but in this article of yours the real issue was mentioned: Starlink's desire to increasingly enter the Italian broadband market to support Italian and non-Italian companies already active in the sector. In particular Open Fiber ( controlled by CDP and the Macquarie fund), but also Tim. But Starlink's advances and forcing – according to what I understand – aroused a reaction that was anything but positive, with a de facto unanimous position also developed within the Confindustria industry association Asstel , chaired by Massimo Sarmi and directed by Laura Di Raimondo.
A de facto position shared by the ministers interested in the dossier and by the Prime Minister, beyond the mutual human esteem publicly expressed by Musk and Meloni, not only for the presence of Mr. , and by the consultant Andrea Stroppa, who works for the owner of Tesla so much so that he wrote an article in the newspaper Repubblica which the newspaper directed by Maurizio Molinari titled as follows: "Why Elon Musk's Starlink can become an opportunity for Italy".
On the other hand, Italy stands out in institutional circles, even in the space sector – despite being a pillar of the Atlantic Alliance and a friend of America – it participates in European programs in the sector in which it is in the foreground, as also emerged from a recent event in the presence of the Minister of Business, Adolfo Urso.
Finally, the connections – controversial, but also being debated in the US – between Musk's galaxy and Moscow are at the center of the attention of American Democrats, as can be seen from this article yesterday from Reuters .
Furthermore, it seems bizarre that while Musk's role is being discussed on the American left, Musk's main Italian collaborator, namely Stroppa, was very close to the Renzians at the beginning of his career, and is now a consultant – as recently written by the newspaper La Verità – of the Bolognese group Unipol historically linked to the left and led by Carlo Cimbri, who I don't think can be counted among the Melonians, on the contrary, and in fact is often praised by Dagospia …
Greetings (as you say), dear director,
Francis Walsingham
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Dear Francis, I confess to you. I've been happy to be on Twitter for over 12 years, now X, and only two people have blocked me (and yet I'm not a troublemaker): Gianni Riotta and Andrea Stroppa. An atrocious pain pervades me every day for this reason. Salutoni ( MA )
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/musk-meloni-pnrr/ on Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:10:20 +0000.