This is why Meloni hits Brussels for Ita-Lufthansa
Ita-Lufthansa dossier. Facts, words and indiscretions
The Meloni government certainly wants to close the Ita-Lufthansa dossier. Even the German company can't wait to take over the airline nowcontrolled by the Treasury, but in Brussels someone is putting a spanner in the works: the European Commission, at the Ministry of Economy, asks specious questions and responds with bizarre nos to questions posed by Rome.
This is the state of the art on the Ita Airways match which provoked the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, to snort in public, also lambasting the European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni: «Something objectively curious is happening, that is, the European Commission itself which for years he asked us to find a solution to the problem Ita, when we find a solution to the problem he blocks it and therefore we are no longer understanding. And we would like an answer", underlined Meloni angrily.
But what happened between Rome and Brussels? There were "an abnormal amount of questions that the Commission asked both the Germans and us and there are some answers from European officials that the Italian government did not like", Italian sources told Corriere della Sera bluntly here in Delhi, on the sidelines of the G20.
According to the reconstruction of Start Magazine , a few weeks ago the Ministry of Economy – also to accelerate the integration between Ita and Lufthansa – probed the offices of the European Commission, essentially asking: would we intend to appoint the German Joerg Eberhart , former administrator delegate of Air Dolomiti, head of company of ITA, is everything ok? But the Brussels offices surprisingly – according to rumors gathered by Start Magazine from industry circles – said "no".
From here, in all probability, some conspiracy-minded interpretations were born in the executive: "There is also the suspicion that a few too many technicians, still at the direction of Competition, in Brussels, have connections and relationships that are not only professional with Paris, which he certainly fears an expansion of Lufthansa to Italy too. And which until a year ago was in the running with Air France, instead of Berlin, to relaunch the Italian company", wrote the Corriere della sera .
But Brussels circles assure Start Magazine that the negative response to Rome's request came from an Italian manager of the Commission offices who had in fact been probed by the department headed by Giancarlo Giorgetti .
The yellow thickens.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/ecco-perche-meloni-picchia-su-bruxelles-per-ita-lufthansa/ on Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:46:35 +0000.