The American week of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi begins in Silicon Valley in California, who last night attended a dinner hosted by the president of Stanford University, one of the most famous in the world, where he met the major personalities from the heart of tech and the internet age. Today Renzi will continue his visit to Silicon Valley by meeting the CEO of Twitter, Dock Costolo, and then the woman-manager who leads Yahoo!, Marissa Meyer. But the most significant meeting will be the one with 150 Italian scientists, young people and entrepreneurs who have found their second home in Silicon with their start-ups.
From San Francisco Renzi will move to New York where he will participate in the UN summit of heads of state and government on the climate. In those hours he will also meet former US president Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary who will run for the White House in the next presidential elections.
On Thursday Renzi will speak at the UN general assembly against the death penalty. On Friday, the premier will visit the Fiat-Chrysler headquarters in Detroit where he will be received by the CEO of the automotive group, Sergio Marchionne, who intends to show and tell him how life works in a large factory and the job market in America and that it will certainly spur him to go ahead on the path of reforms. Music to Renzi's ears who, upon returning to Italy, will instead have to face the leadership of the Democratic Party to discuss labor reform and article 18, thorny topics a thousand miles away from the reality of Silicon Valley but on which reforming capacity will be measured of the head of government and leader of the Democratic Party.
