That’s why Paola Severino breaks up with Luiss

7 July 202311 months ago babelfish

Storm at the top of Luiss. Facts, background and insights into the resignation of former minister Paola Severino from the board of directors of the Confindustria university. The article in the newspaper La Verità with background on the resignation censored by the Luiss press review

Storm at the top of Luiss. The vice president of the Confindustria university, Paola Severino, slams the door and resigns from the board of directors and from the role of vice president of the Confindustria university.

The drop that broke the camel of discontent that Severino had been simmering for some time was the decision of the Luiss board of directors to sell the business branch of the Business School to the Nextalia fund, but not only, as the newspaper La Truth in an article by Claudio Antonelli that does not appear today in the university press review.

Here are facts, details and background.

WHAT THE NOTE FROM LUISS SAYS

Paola Severino has resigned from the Luiss board of directors. «I explained the reasons for this painful decision at length in a letter to the University's board of directors. So I chose to resign from the board of directors of Luiss, the university where I spent all the years of my university career», he says in a note from the university. The president of the Confindustria university, Vincenzo Boccia, on behalf of the board of directors, acknowledged the resignation of the professor and, consequently, from the role of vice president.

THE WORDS OF THE PROF. SEVERINUS

«The ties that bind me to Luiss remain strong and intense», underlines Severino: «Each of the experiences lived in these long years, from young assistant to full professor, from president of the law faculty to pro-rector, vicar pro-rector , rector and finally vice president, have been a source of pride for me, that pride that I have tried to convey to the many students I have welcomed, trained and graduated from Luiss. I will continue teaching. Teaching is the noblest of tasks, because it leaves the mark of our culture, of our feelings, of our way of conceiving social and institutional relationships in young people».

WHAT WILL SEVERINO DO?

Severino, according to the note, will continue to carry out his teaching activity at the Department of Law as professor emeritus in the chair of criminal law and his functions as president of the school of law, with which he created in recent years the first master's degree in cybersecurity nationwide. An explanation that does not really explain the disruptive move of a personality of institutional importance such as that of Professor Severino, former Minister of Justice in the Monti government and closer to center-right circles than to those of the center-left, despite having always had a formally bipartisan position.

THE REAL REASONS FOR SEVERINO'S RESIGNATION

There are several reasons that led to Severino's noisy decision to resign from the top of the university owned by the confederation of industrialists chaired by Carlo Bonomi. Certainly his negative vote (the only one on the board) on the sale of the Luiss Business School to the Nextalia fund which is hoarding acquisitions in the training sector for managers and professionals. But Severino's no could also lead to her remaining on the board of directors of Luiss, instead the jurist and former justice minister wanted to mark a caesura with respect to the action of the university's top management which she has not shared for some time in various respects. The article in the newspaper La Verità points out Severino's proximity to a former prominent exponent of Confindustria such as the former director general of the Viale dell'Astronomia association such as Marcella Panucci, now head of cabinet at the Ministry of Education run by Anna Maria Bernini (Forza Italy). A bond that is not only professional but also "political": in fact, despite some recent moves by Luiss Guido Carli, such as the School of Governament led by the economist Domenico Lombardi (considered close to the Brothers of Italy and to the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni ) and by the historian and political scientist Giovanni Orsina (intellectual appreciated by the centre-right), considered a sort of "bridge" therefore not hostile to the Meloni executive, Severino was dissatisfied with the overall management of the university.

EXTRACT FROM THE ARTICLE BY CLAUDIO ANTONELLI IN THE NEWSPAPER LA TRUTH:

“It would have been his negative vote in the council to set off a situation that had already been tense for some time. On the agenda is the sale of the business branch of the Business School to the Nextalia fund led by Francesco Canzonieri, former child prodigy of Mediobanca. Evidently Severino's position is in contrast with that of Vincenzo Boccia, who at Luiss covers the role of president representing Confindustria which he led for a mandate. Critics of the sale point out that it faces an opportunity for cash in the short term and further growth opportunities in the long term. In April 2022 Confindustria decided to enter the capital of Nextalia and therefore the idea of selling has certainly not matured in the last few days. This explains the fractures and also the possibility that Severino has decided to resign to anticipate the times. The concrete risk of future exclusion once he arrives at Luiss Carlo Bonomi could in fact be the second lever to have triggered this choice. The third element can be perceived from the corridors of the university. For some months the former minister of Mario Monti's government would have had more than one divergence with respect to the positions of the rector Andrea Principe. It seems that Severino didn't like too much the move towards a Princeton in tone and shape. On the contrary, the path to follow would have been that of relationships with strong ex-pupils. Two names to give an idea. Elisabetta Belloni, now number one of the Dis, Department for information and security. Carlo Messina, number one of Intesa Sanpaolo. Among the famous alumni there is also Marcella Panucci who, after having held the position of general director of Viale dell'Astronomia for years, moved, certainly with the blessing of Severino, to the Ministry of Public Administration and, with the Meloni government, to the university department"

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/paola-severino-luiss/ on Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:54:49 +0000.