I don't know if a new government will be born from the crisis of the yellow-green one, but in this hot summer something has changed in the Italian political debate anyway, maybe permanently.
I'm inspired by five points that the PD places at the basis of the negotiation with the M5S:
1) loyal membership of the European Union;
2) full recognition of representative democracy, starting from the centrality of the parliament;
3) development based on environmental sustainability;
4) change in the management of migratory flows, with full protagonism of Europe;
5) turning the economic and social recipes, in a redistributive key, which opens a season of investments.
Well it looks remarkable the assonance with the principles and values touched by the outgoing prime minister in his speech to the Senate. The assonance is complete on the first three points and perhaps also on the fifth, only point 4 is missing. Therefore the real condition required by the PD of the M5S is a drastic revision of migration policies. Abjuring the muscle tactics implemented by Salvini could expose the eventual new government to heavy barrages.
But the hint that Zingaretti makes to the full protagonism of Europe could offer the keystone. Indeed, in his keynote speech to the EU Parliament Ursula Von der Leyen has fought hard on the need for a community migration policy that does not leave the port countries alone. Therefore, if something moves in the right direction in Brussels, even the fourth of the five PD points could become digestible for pentastellati.
It must be reiterated that the outcome of the ongoing negotiations is highly uncertain and that recourse to new elections remains probable. However, something big in the political debate has changed. Previously, with the yellow-green majority, a social-redistributive vision (to the point of winking at happy degrowth) of the M5S and a neoliberal one (yes to construction sites) of the League opposed each other. All in a jumble of recriminations that sought to blame the euro and the EU for Italy's problems.
Today, however, we are discussing a sustainability scenario in a clear European framework. This seems to correspond better to the inclination of the Italian people, whose majority, albeit critical, does not want to leave the euro and the EU, and also to the needs of the new generations, emphasized by Greta Thunberg's Friday's for Future.
Sustainability, in the version of "integral ecology" suggested by Pope Francis in the encyclical Laudato si', attentive to both the social and environmental dimensions, must be dealt with in order to keep up with the times. It is precisely these days that the publication of the Business Roundtable Report, with which the world's leading companies undertake to give up the mere profit of shareholders only to embrace corporate objectives that are also responsible towards other stakeholders and towards the environment.
