Why does the US belittle Berlusconi on Pratica di Mare?
What the charge d'affaires of the American embassy in Italy, Shawn Crowley, said about the Pratica di Mare agreements pushed by Berlusconi. Paola Sacchi's note
Arcore's watchword is silence. Still silence, which is becoming a bit deafening, from Silvio Berlusconi, at least until yesterday evening. He would have been the one to impose it on his own, according to some reconstructions. But the fire of controversy does not go out.
At the center of the Zelensky case , who in the presence of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on a visit to Kiev spoke harsh words against the president of Forza Italia, already four times prime minister, who in turn had pronounced equally non-diplomatic words about the Ukrainian president at the ballot box open while voting in the regional elections, beyond all hypocrisy, there is a political datum relating to the internal relations of the centre-right majority. And this does not seem so much to concern the merits of the question of support for Ukraine, which, as the prime minister has already reiterated in Kiev, replying unequivocally to Volodymyr Zelensky, has always seen, unlike the center-left divided internally, the center-right united, beyond everyone's considerations and the nuances of a coalition, which, as the group leader in Montecitorio of FdI, Tommaso Foti underlines, is not a monolith, "it is not a barracks".
No, in the spotlight the facts, with a cascade of criticisms also yesterday against Berlusconi from the embassies of Ukraine and the USA, seem rather to pose a question of method, of internal diplomacy in relations between allies. That is, the salt that has always been the policy for the stability of all governments. News agencies attribute considerations such as that Berlusconi would not represent the government's positions to circles in the Ukrainian embassy. As if Berlusconi wasn't the leader of Forza Italia. Or come from the American side positions such as that of the charge d'affaires of the US embassy, Shawn Crowley, who in an interview with la Repubblica belittles "Pratica di Mare" and basically tells Berlusconi that it didn't help much.
Words, against which a big blue rebels, vice president of the Senate, like Maurizio Gasparri who defines Crowley's consideration as "very unpleasant" according to which Berlusconi should rather think of "Munich 1938". Gasparri, replying to Crowley, according to whom with "Pratica di Mare 2002 Berlusconi believes he has helped put an end to the cold war", recalls that we cannot forget "the important contribution of dialogue and peace given by Berlusconi in that phase". Therefore, the big blue asks: “Crowley precise. And be more respectful of the truth of history."
The diplomatic question internal to the relations of the centre-right majority objectively concerns at this point the honorability of the history of a former four-time prime minister, founder of the centre-right, still today decisive in the governing coalition on a numerical and political level, who through a series of external parties or an attempt is made to divide his party into operations that sound almost like political fiction, which identifies with him, still with millions of voters in tow, or an attempt is made to diminish together with the scope of operations such as the historic handshake between George Bush junior and Wladimir Putin.
Berlusconi in certain media narration of the so-called "newspapers" is considered as a stumbling block, eternally on the boulevard of sunset, because his votes would by now be interchangeable with those of FdI, the driving party of the center-right or right-center. But that's not exactly the case, the coalition voters, although certainly much more united than those of the centre-left, are not an indistinct magma. As for the internal diplomatic question of relations between the leaders of the centre-right, it is certainly not useful to Prime Minister Meloni and his government that the strategic ally, founder of the centre-right, be humiliated in this way on an international level.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/berlusconi-pratica-di-mare-incaricato-affari-usa/ on Fri, 24 Feb 2023 06:43:08 +0000.