The meeting of the Financial Stability Committee held this afternoon at the Treasury lasted about two hours. Master of ceremonies was, of course, the superminister Giulio Tremonti. Seated next to him around the table were Fabrizio Saccomanni and Anna Maria Tarantola, director and deputy general manager of Bankitalia, Giuseppe Vegas, president of Consob, Giancarlo Giannini, president of Isvap, and Vittorio Grilli, general director of the Treasury. The purpose of the meeting was to take stock of the tornado that is affecting the Italian financial market.
But today was only the first institutional appointment on Tremonti's agenda, which finds itself with a particularly crowded start to the week. Tomorrow morning he will have to leave via XX Settembre to go to Luxembourg, where he is expected to report by the president of the Eurogroup, Jean Claude Junker. The trip across the border will not allow him to participate in the usual Wednesday cabinet meeting, but most likely the minister will be able to return to the capital in time to hear the prime minister's speech. Silvio Berlusconi will report to the Chamber at 15 pm and at 17 pm to the Senate on the country's economic and financial situation.
Meanwhile, this morning the Head of State, Giorgio Napolitano, met the governor of Bank of Italy, Mario Draghi, for the second time in a few days. The contents of the conversation are not known, but the President nonetheless assured that he will follow the debate over the next few days, because "in the current moment, the word belongs to the political, government and opposition forces, called to discuss with the social partners on the choices to be made to decisively stimulate the indispensable growth of the economy and employment, as a complement to the decisions on public finances aimed at achieving a balanced budget in 2014. I will closely follow the results of this comparison – adds the Head of State – starting from the concern that I have not failed to express for the trends of the financial markets and the economy, in their general terms and in their specific Italian aspects”.
