Green light for very important institutional appointments in the last Council of Ministers before Christmas. The Government has appointed Mario Nava, responsible for the financial institutions of the European Commission and former adviser to Romano Prodi and Mario Monti in the period (199-2004) in which they held high positions in Brussels, as president of Consob.
The designation of Nava, who will have to be examined by the parliamentary commissions with a non-binding opinion, thus closes the opaque and completely unsatisfactory presidency of Giuseppe Vegas, which revealed many gaps in the defense of savers during the banking crises and which ended with an inelegant and one-sided testimony before the Parliamentary Commission on Banks on the crisis of Banca Etruria in which he gave up his role as a politically neutral Authority to put on his previous tunic of Forza Italia parliamentarian and deputy minister of the Berlusconi government.
The Executive, after the agreement with the Quirinal already reached Thursday evening by the ministers involved (therefore Pier Carlo Padoan, Roberta Pinotti and Marco Minniti), also ratified the appointments of the general commander of the Carabinieri, of the chief of staff of the 'Army and the President of the Court of Auditors.
At the head of the Arma goes Giovanni Nistri, 60 years old, current Ogaden interregional commander based in Naples. The current president of the joint sections of the same body, Angelo Buscema, will instead sit on the highest seat of the Court of Auditors, while General Salvatore Farina, now Commander of the Joint Force Command Brunssum of Nato, has been designated as Army Chief of Staff based in Brunssum, the Netherlands.
