With two extensive interviews over the weekend at Sheet and Milano Finanza, the premier Giorgia Meloni explained his economic policy in great detail - from the Pnrr to the Superbonus and from the tax reform to labor policy and much more - confirming the substantial line of continuity with the Government Draghi, albeit with a couple of not insignificant ambiguities that make Italy's relationship with Europe less credible. Ambiguities are called Month and politics of competition. On the Mes, sooner or later Meloni will come to sign the reform that all of Europe has already endorsed and that Italy, with its vetoes, forces to the starting blocks, but now it's a little too much in the bush. It is entirely probable that the prime minister wants to use the go-ahead for the Mes as a bargaining chip for a simplification of procedures on the Pnrr and for a less punitive reform of the Stability Pact for theItaly, but continuing to repeat that he will only sign the Mes if it changes its nature after the other 26 European partners have already signed it is not very credible and tarnishes our country's reputation in Europe, already scratched by the unedifying ballets on the postponement of the tenders for the beach concessions and for the itinerant trade licenses.
MELONI AND ECONOMIC POLICY: IT FOLLOWS THE DRAGHI LINE BUT FOR THE PD IT IS "WITHOUT COMPASS"
What the President of the Democratic Party, Stefano says, may also be true Bonaccini, according to which Meloni "doesn't have a compass" and "lives for the day - "floats rather than governs" would say the father of sociology in Italy, Franco Ferrarotti - but it must be recognized that so far on economic and budgetary policy the right-centre government he hasn't deviated much from the Draghi government. The litmus test is in the relationship between debt and economic growth. "The reduction of public debt - Meloni explains to Milano Finanza - remains a priority" but "the only way to make a high debt like ours sustainable is economic growth" while "the "austerity policies of past years have proved ineffective” as evidenced by the change of line of the European Commission. Therefore: more growth and no austerity, exactly like Draghi. SuperMario really did such a policy if we consider that in the two-year period 2021-2022, Italy's GDP grew by 10%, the likes of which has not happened since the times of the economic miracle, and overtook both France and Germany, while the the ratio between debt and GDP has, after years and years, significantly decreased, despite the ballast of the pandemic and the war. In addition to intentions, will Meloni be able to maintain a line of continuity also in deeds? We will understand soon.
MELONI AND ITS TRUE WEAK POINT
Unfortunately for the premier, the weak point is another, in fact there are two others. The former was ruthlessly disclosed by the former AN leader, Gianfranco Fini, who was Meloni's teacher and friend, when, interviewed by Lucia Annunziata "In half an hour more", he launched an appeal to the premier to decide to pronounce the word clearly "Anti-Fascism“, also “because I know she is convinced of it” and “I don't understand the reluctance to pronounce this adjective” which is in the Constitution. But the reason - and it is Meloni's real weak point - is the folklorism of many of her party mates - La Russa and her brother-in-law Lollobrigida in the lead - who have done everything to spoil Meloni's image in Italy and in Europe. On April 25, the premier will be regularly at the Altare della Patria in Rome with the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, to honor the Liberation of Italy from Nazi-fascism, but what about the repeated fascist sorties of the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa? When he was defense minister, La Russa said that on April 25 he would honor the fallen of the fascist Republic of Salò and this year, to avoid the anti-fascist celebrations, he will go to Prague to honor the martyr of the Russian tanks of '68, Jan Palach. As for the Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, one can imagine how his indecorous words on "ethnic substitution" have infuriated the premier sister-in-law. And in fact it fell once again to Gianfranco Fini to define them as "a colossal nonsense that is neither in heaven nor on earth".
Meloni, it must be admitted, is much better than expected, a tough guy, who studies the dossiers and who tries to face the thousand problems of every day with pragmatism, but, unfortunately for her, with her party and government comrades who finds himself, trouble is always around the corner. The Spanish writer Gracian y Morales argued that "each one shows what is from the friends he has". Meloni would certainly do without many friends.
