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Banco Bpm and Mps: the government's two own goals advise politicians to stay out of the banking game and leave it to the market.

The events surrounding Banco BPM and Monte dei Paschi confirm that whenever politicians try to interfere in the banking system, they only cause trouble and make a bad impression. Let's hope they've realized this and let the market decide on Intesa Sanpaolo's takeover bid for MPS.

Banco Bpm and Mps: the government's two own goals advise politicians to stay out of the banking game and leave it to the market.

They wanted to stop Unicredit in the climb to the Bpm bank and they did it by altering the rules of the market with a version of the Golden Power censored also by the EU and opening the doors to the French Agricultural credit. They wanted to build the third banking hub around Ps and they find themselves with the red co-ops of Unipol who will become the new owners of a good part of Monte dei Paschi. bank risk two own goals like this are a good record for the Government.

Two own goals, initially inspired by the banking sovereignty who even went so far as to call Unicredit a "foreign bank", causing general hilarity. In light of the latest developments in the banking game, which, if the takeover bid of Intesa Sanpaolo will come to fruition, it will end up handing over Monte dei Paschi to the bank of Charles Messina and partly to the Bper, controlled by the Unipol of the red cooperatives, it is understood that The paper you joke, not without reason, about the "heterogenesis of ends on the banks of Meloni & Co.”.

What, then, is the moral of this turbulent banking crisis in our country? It's best for politicians not to interfere in the banking system, because every time they do, it causes trouble. This is exactly what's happening in Germany, where the government's barricades... Merz on Unicredit's takeover Commerzbank They are producing effects opposite to those desired, namely, the victory of Italian banks on the wave of market favor. A case study that also serves as a lesson for Italian politics: avoid meddling with banks and let the market take its course. The Authorities are responsible for the necessary controls on operations: it is their job to monitor the market. It seems even the Minister of Economy has understood this. Giancarlo Giorgetti, who threw up his hands in the face of Intesa Sanpaolo's takeover bid for MPS: "Whoever pays the most wins." Better late than never.

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