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The frond of Conte, the question about Rousseau with a mocking photo of Grillo, the numbers in the dark about the dead Covid

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The frond of Conte, the question about Rousseau with a mocking photo of Grillo, the numbers in the dark about the dead Covid

Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start, not only on Conte, Draghi and Rousseau

THE CRILLS OF DRAGONS

THE FRONDISM OF CONTE

VIRAL NUMBERS

UHM UHM URSULA

TEUTONIC LOCKDOWN

QUISQUILIE & PINZILLACCHERE

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ANSA POINT ON SUPERMINISTRY FOR THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION AND THE ROLE OF THE ROUSSEAU PLATFORM

The 209 billion euros of the recovery fund risk causing a political earthquake in the palaces of the Italian ministerial power: with Mario Draghi's yes to a ministry for ecological transition, the environment, traditional Cinderella in the division of power and resources, becomes more central .

The hypothesis of a merger of the relative ministry with Economic Development is the hypothesis that seems to take shape: it would involve a redefinition of seats, competences and priorities, displacement of managers, reallocation of funds.

For Italy, the turning point in the negotiations between the premier and the claims of the 5 Stars would bridge the gap on environmental policies that separates it from the more advanced European countries. If one of the hypotheses was a simple strengthening of the Ministry of the Environment, putting it in the foreground in the management of the recovery fund with new skills, for example in energy and greater allocation of funds, the words of Luigi Di Maio seem to open to one more ambitious scenario: "The project – the outgoing Foreign Minister later declared on Facebook – aims to support the environment, as the M5S has always done, and to integrate the defense of our land with the opportunities for development and growth economic ".

A solution that would bring Italy closer to the European model: in France the Ministry of Ecology Transition brings together Transport and Infrastructure and the key energy box, and it is in the control room that it manages and decides on recovery together with President Macron and the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire. In Spain, the same ministry makes energy policies.

In Switzerland, there is a single "Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications" which brings together environmental, energy and transport issues. Solutions charged with political repercussions in Italy, where shifting competences and powers to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT), or to the Mise, is a small revolution. Of course, the appointments will also play a key role, with the box of the new ministry which, if given to the outgoing Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli, or to the Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, would offer the 5 Stars an extra incentive.

Precisely on the appropriations for the green conversion, on the use of the 209 billion that Europe wants to be used for a real change, the tug-of-war that will characterize the "grounding" of the Italian recovery is already looming. The president of the WWF, speaking to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, put her finger on the scourge of the "missing resources" of the previous Italian plan for the recovery fund, with 31% dedicated to the green transition against 37% who is the minimum threshold imposed by the European Commission.

Draghi – said those present at the talks – had a completely new approach on the environmental issue, normally snubbed with respect to the big "games" of politics when it comes to establishing appointments and allocating funds. "An approach in a completely different direction"; explained Ivan Novelli, president of Greenpeace Italy. The former president of the ECB knows well that Europe – in the words of Christine Lagarde who succeeded him at Eurotower – is "serious" about the green transition and will not be satisfied with a splash of green to give the go ahead project. Even the ECB has given an environmental twist to the way it conducts monetary policy.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/conte-rousseau-grillo-morti-covid/ on Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:24:22 +0000.