Prodi and Monti launch an appeal for political responsibility to unblock appointments to the European Commission. Cross-vetoes overcome, but tensions remain over the competences of Fitto and Ribera
Contrary to what Meloni would like us to believe, the technical governments of Ciampi, Monti and Draghi, despite being born as an anomaly of Italian democracy, had great merits for the country that no propaganda will ever be able to erase
In view of the next European elections, around thirty personalities from the Old Continent - including Prodi, Amato and Monti - have launched a 7-point Manifesto to support the relaunch of Europe's role
The choice of Monti as Premier to avoid Italy's bankruptcy was proof that Napolitano was thinking of the national interest and not of partisan interests like Occhetto
Draghi's article on FT has received great echo but his assignment to form a government would be misleading because the post-emergency will impose mostly political decisions that postulate a firm and recognized democratic mandate
The Court rejected the appeals accusing the decree with which the Renzi government partially returned to pensioners the money lost with the stop to the equalization wanted by the Monti government as unconstitutional. The new discipline creates "a…
The English weekly supports the No to the referendum and suggests a caretaker government for Italy but the editorial team splits - Prime Minister Renzi replies: "Europe wants us weak and dreams of a new Monti-style government but we are not…
In a thousand days of government, Renzi has placed his trust in the measures in Parliament 77 times but Berlusconi and Monti had also resorted to them very often in the last legislature - Research by the research office of the Chamber.
A day full of news: in the foreground the MPS board of directors and Renzi's visit to the White House, but also the recovery of the Stock Exchange, the former premier Monti who expressed his opinion on the referendum and football - The compilation of…
The former premier will vote NO to protest against this maneuver which, with its many bonuses, would aim to buy the electorate's vote: yet, the new constitutional rules are the premise for changing the propensity of politics to buy the…
Why did the Democratic Party calmly accept Berlusconi's confidence votes in the Monti and Letta governments and now shouldn't it accept Verdini's "additional" votes in the Senate? This is what the leader of the Democratic Party is asking of the dem minority at…
Mario Monti deserves gratitude for saving Italy from bankruptcy in 2011 but his scathing attack on Renzi on European politics reveals that, as the story of Civic Choice also demonstrates, politics is not his thing…
AMBROSETTI FORUM - Former Greek minister Yanis Varoufakis: "I am experiencing a personal tragedy and Tsipras is a friend of mine, but the bailout plan for Greece is not working and it expects growth only in 2016" - Former premier Monti replies:…
Former Prime Minister Mario Monti, who chairs the European group that must reform EU revenues by next year, anticipates that the new resource system will have to be "inspired by criteria of simplicity, transparency, fairness and democratic accountability" by throwing " The…
PENSIONS, CONSULT - "I respect the sentence of the Constitutional Court, as always, but I am perplexed" comments former premier Mario Monti in an interview with "La Stampa", recalling how, in the absence of the block on the indexation of average and high, there would have been…
The board of directors of Monte dei Paschi has convened the meeting for mid-April which will have to approve the 2014 accounts and approve the capital increase up to 3 billion - As a result of the payment of interest on the Monti bonds, the Treasury will…
Minister Giannini: "Monti's great project made great sense, now it has exhausted its function" - Renzi: "Sharing can identify a common landing place".
The defeat of Berlusconi and Alfano in the battle of the Quirinale lays bare the true origin of the crisis of the Italian right: it does not know how to represent the moderates and the liberals - Too many power struggles and few ideal questions - For…
WORKSHOP AMBROSETTI - It was former premier Mario Monti who invited the Greek leader of Syriza to the meeting of the big names in European finance - The two, who represent opposing worlds, exchange compliments and even find points of contact: above all…
The two former Premiers attack the current Prime Minister - The Professor: "In a few days my government has put in place concrete reforms, not slides" - D'Alema: "The results so far have not been satisfactory. A party cannot…
By way of derogation, Parliament - headed by the Labor Commission of the Chamber - is dismantling the Monti-Fornero reform - Between real exodus and new exodus candidates there are now 170 workers protected at Pantalone's expense -…
In Piazza Affari yesterday MontePaschi lost 3,7%, on the first day after the conclusion of the capital increase. The option rights not exercised during the Offer Period will be offered on the Stock Exchange from yesterday until 7 July 2014, unless…
Four Italians are taking part today in the Copenhagen meeting of the prestigious Bilderberg Group: they are the former prime minister Mario Monti, the former president of Telecom Italia Franco Bernabè, the president of Fiat John Elkann and the director of Rai News 24 Monica Maggioni…
Non-recurring adjustments and charges linked to the Monti bonds send Monte dei Paschi's first quarter of 2014 into the red, but the signs of recovery of the Sienese bank are visible - Viola: "Now the pre-tax result is in balance"…
Monte dei Paschi is evaluating the amount of the capital increase necessary for the repayment of the Monti bonds, following the publication of the European Asset Quality Review manual - There is talk of the hypothesis of bringing the capital increase from 3 to 5 billion .
The Parliamentary Committee for the impeachment voted to dismiss the impeachment request for Napolitano, judging it "unfounded"
The Pd-Pdl agreement on the appointment of the president of the anti-mafia commission splits - Rosy Bindi is elected to the ballot, with 25 votes in favour. And there is high tension even in the house of Civic Choice, the national executive of the party is expected tonight...
The password of the new academic year of the Bocconi University of Milan is: competitiveness - in fact, first the president Mario Monti pronounces it, then the rector Andrea Sironi up to the guest of honour, the former Bocconi student and now CEO of Vodafone Group Vittorio…
Dramatic break at the top of Civic Choice, the formation created by former prime minister Mario Monti who acknowledged that Mauro and Casini effectively discouraged him by inspiring a more pro-government declaration by 11 senators on the Stability Law and…
DEMOCHRISTIANS WILL DIE/3 - The risk of a neo-Demo-Christian drift exists but it would not be good for the country which instead has a great need for reforms as Monti and Napolitano argue - Letta uses the grand coalition to make…
The Deputy Minister of the Economy, Stefano Fassina, writes that "farewell to the Imu now makes the VAT increase scheduled for October XNUMX inevitable" - Mario Monti's reaction was tough ("Letta preferred to reassure the government's survival with this yield on the IMU") and also…
While solutions are being sought to cover the reformulation of the Imu in September, Monti attacks Berlusconi: "During the election campaign he said he would pay for it. The possibility is still open" - "Letta prepare a coalition contract" - "I share the protest…
For the OECD, the real priority is to cut taxes on labor – Monti: “It's a morbid obsession with the IMU” – Brunetta: “It's not true, the house tax has depressed our economy” – Fassina: “More useful to avoid VAT increases and…
Mario Noera, professor of law and economics of financial markets at Bocconi speaks: "Letta can do well for two reasons: because the international liquidity situation is much less tense and above all because the idea that the pressure…
The meaning of the relaunch project proposed by the Premier does not lie so much in emergency economic measures, such as the blockade of the IMU in June, but in profound reforms of politics and of the entire public machine - Less precise was…
QUIRINALE - Napolitano received 739 votes, much more than the quorum of 504 votes - Pd, Pdl, Civic Choice and Lega supported him - 217 votes for Stefano Rodotà - Monday the oath and then off to the consultations for…
The former president of the Senate and former secretary of the CISL, Franco Marini (80 years old) will be the shared candidate for the Presidency of the Republic who will be put to the vote in Parliament tomorrow morning in a logic of broad agreements: Marini will be supported by the Pd,…
"Italy does not infect anyone": this is how Prime Minister Mario Monti replies to the EU commissioner for European economic and monetary affairs, Olli Rehn who had once again raised the alarm about the Italian accounts.
This morning the government launched the Economic and Financial Document: GDP -1,3% in 2013 and +1,3% in 2014 - Deficit at 2,9% this year and 1,8% next - Monti said underlined that, despite "many people are calling for new...
From Bersani to Berlusconi, passing through the grillini, the party of those who require state interventions of all kinds to solve the country's problems is reborn - In this context, Civic Choice, which was the bearer of a recovery project for Italy…
CONSULTATIONS - The Monti supporters of Berlusconi's proposal for the formation of a grand coalition government ranging from the Pdl to the Pd - "We need a stable government that immediately addresses the country's most urgent problems" -…
The search for a ragged majority is not a good encouragement for a government that wants to face the political and economic issues with courage - With Grillo and the League, too many genuflections not to face the reality that has emerged…
Tense duel between the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister who was ready to resign in order to be elected President of the Senate with the votes of the Democratic Party and perhaps prepare for the subsequent ascent to the Quirinale - Napolitano: "You cannot resign from…
Angela Merkel speaks at the end of the EU summit: "The stability pact leaves Italy with room for manoeuvre, and it is right that the country uses it" - On the political situation: "Never said I wanted a Grosse koalition, I just hope that…
After yesterday's exploits in the wake of Generali and Eni, the Italian Stock Exchange aims to cancel the losses (-0.8%) of 2013 - Even the BTPs are breathing in view of the European Council where Monti calls for more flexibility on public finances - Piazza …
INTERVIEW WITH FRANCO FERRAROTTI - For the father of sociology in Italy, our country remains "an archipelago of cultures" but politics "resembles a cabaret" - Grillo recalls the commedia dell'arte, Bersani is "an honest stubborn with streaks…
The leader of Civic Choice on the day of the meeting with the elected officials: "We will not be in the slightest willing to distance ourselves from European roots and the path of structural reforms" - "No political offer, not even that of the 5 Star Movement appears capable of…
The Italian premier launches a not too veiled dig from Brussels at the governments of states such as France, Portugal, Spain and even the Netherlands, arguing that "the credibility of a country's conduct can be undermined if others ask for - and obtain ...
ELECTIONS - At Palazzo Madama Berlusconi takes the largest number of seats (119) but can be overtaken by an alliance between Pd (110) and Monti (19) which would reach 129, in any case very far from the majority of 158 seats - Grillo…
Will Monti enter Parliament or not? Here is the answer: in the Chamber the threshold is 10% for coalitions and 2% for lists that are part of them (4% for lists not in coalition) but if a…
ELECTION SPECIAL - According to the latest projections, the result in the Senate overturns the first indications and gives the majority to the centre-right (31%), against 29,7% of the centre-left - If this were the case, Parliament risks becoming ungovernable due to…
The premier trembles: according to the first instant pools it is below 10% - The bad result of Casini and Fini pays off, but also an ineffective electoral campaign and often contradictory lists
The big names close the electoral campaign - Monti: "Challenge between reformists and populists" - Bersani: "Grillo, watch out for democracy. Let's not snub the discomfort of the former Berlusconians" - Il Cavaliere: "Cruel and inhuman communism on the left, Grillo a good comedian , Mountains…
ELECTION SPECIAL - Closing the electoral campaign, Monti spares no attacks on either the right or the left: "Berlusconi personifies immoderation: how can you vote for him?" - The centre-left is "still a prisoner of ideological cages and an ancient idea of the country"…
After Monti's new invitation, the Quirinale confirms: the Head of State "does not think it is conceivable that his name be proposed again for the Presidency of the Republic".
For the rating agency in Italy, the greatest risks concern economic growth, not the accounts - "After the elections, the country risks losing momentum on reforms" - The main problems: an overly rigid labor market, a burden…
The premier first expresses his appreciation for Emma Bonino, then gives his endorsement to the current tenant of the Colle: "I have a candidate: she is not a woman and she knows that building well where she exercised the very high function of president and it is Giorgio …
A study by Mediobanca Securities photographs the Italian political situation one week before the polls: "An inevitable alliance between Bersani and Monti" - "Concrete risk of a return to the polls in the short term" - To guarantee market stability, according to the study,…
ELECTION PROGRAMS - The guiding star remains the rigor of the accounts, but the Montiani also aim to cut the tax burden, reducing the Imu, Irap and Irpef, but also reducing public spending - Here are all the proposals to revive investments...
Mario Monti, guest of Agorà, talks about a new Tangentopoli: "In 1992 it was thought that the phenomenon of bribes was at an end, instead we are here again" - "Injured by scoundrels who say they left Italy in good condition…
NEW BOOK BY MASSIMO D'ALEMA: "Countercurrent. Interview on the left at the time of anti-politics" by Peppino Caldarola, Laterza publisher - In the face of the prevailing populism and the degradation of the parties, can a modern reforming politics be re-launched? The former prime minister thinks…
Grillo and Ingroia rave about the school, but the electoral programs of the Pd (held back by the conservatism of the CGIL) and PDL on the problems of education and research are also largely disappointing - Only on the Monti agenda does the conception of training emerge as a lever…
POST-ELECTION ORGANIZATION CHART - Where will the probable alliance between Pd and Monti lead if Bersani wins the elections and the prime minister obtains a good affirmation? The most probable hypothesis is that Monti will be offered the presidency of the Senate as a possible springboard…
For Italy, the Prime Minister Mario Monti will participate in the summit, still fully performing his functions in the European context.
Pierluigi Bersani, guest of Radio Anch'io, returns to his opening yesterday to the centrist forces led by Mario Monti: "Available to address them, but convergences are not achieved at all costs" - On the MPS case: "The Pd …
The secretary of the League: "I don't like these blows in the sponge" - On the proposal to return the Imu paid in 2012: "Absolutely acceptable" - Monti criticizes Berlusconi's promises: "I am a poisoned meatball, which will have serious consequences.
The Professor comments on Berlusconi's proposal to return the 2012 IMU on first homes: "It is the first time that someone has tried to buy the Italian vote with the money of the Italians themselves, the money used to plug the holes...
ELECTIONS - Abolishing the IMU and returning 4 billion paid to taxpayers on first homes: this is the proposal launched by Berlusconi who, for the umpteenth time in his political history, seeks the consent of the voters by playing on the illusion of reducing taxes -…
The Premier in Berlin to meet Chancellor Merkel: "In 2011 Italy was the first net contributor to the budget of the European Union. This is not justified" - "It is important for us that the Italian contribution is proportionate and fair compared…
According to the Premier, "the reduction of the Foundation's share in the capital of Monte dei Paschi di Siena and the increase in the State's share could be inevitable", but "in the past, even the state banks gave rise to interweaving between banks…
From Brussels, the Commissioner for Economic Affairs lashes out at Berlusconi: "He has not kept his commitments and has blocked Italy's growth" - "With the formation of the Monti government, the situation has stabilized" - "Priority to economic reforms".
According to the Pd candidate in the Chamber in the Lombardy constituency1, we need to think about the commissioning of MPS: the advantages would be greater than an American-style nationalization which risks becoming permanent - "It is first of all up to the Bank of Italy to ascertain whether they exist…
According to the Professor's plan, the resources to cut Imu, Irap and personal income tax will come from the "block on current spending net of interest" - "I rule out a new manoeuvre, but it will depend on the vote" - "We need a grand coalition to make…
The professor, on the microphones of Radio Anch'io, opens to the People of Freedom: "Without Berlusconi, a collaboration could very well be imagined" - The jab at Bersani: "No possibility of joint work with maximalist currents" - "We are the only political novelty compared to…
Mario Monti also explained that "of the total 3,9 billion, 1,9 are repayments of previous Tremonti bonds" - "Italian banks were among the most solid throughout the financial crisis".
After the collapse of the last few days, this morning at the opening of Piazza Affari the share of Monte dei Paschi resumed its run, reaching +7% and suspension due to excessive increases - Monti: "Italian banks are solid, Mps chance…
The Premier and the leader of Confindustria today expressed diametrically opposed positions on the role of the CGIL - Monti: "It slows down change" - Squinzi: "It is not an obstacle to reforms and interventions for growth".
Prime Minister Mario Monti speaks at the World Economic Forum - "GDP figures in the third quarter of 2012 were better than expected" - 2013 estimates down for everyone, now focus on recovery and employment - In the field for…
Between tomorrow and Sunday 27 January, about 40 heads of state and government will be present in the Swiss town, including the German Angela Merkel, the British David Cameron and the Russian Dmitri Medvedev.
The president of Mps, interviewed in Milan on the occasion of the series of meetings "The financial world", talks about the economy, politics, Europe - "Bersani? Will he ask for help from the central forces" - "Banking union is a priority for the liquidity of our institutions "…
The English newspaper first attacks Monti and then backtracks, but does not spare Berlusconi for "having brought Italy to the edge of the fiscal cliff" - At the origin of Munchau's attacks was the adversity to the euro and the Europe - Only the ineffable Brunetta is not…
The "ascent into the field" of the Professor is not only characterized by the technical credibility of the character, but brings with it aesthetic, behavioral and even "anthropological" connotations, as noted by the editorialist of "La Stampa" Michele Brambilla.
INTERVIEW WITH STEFANO CECCANTI, constitutionalist and liberal parliamentarian of the Democratic Party - Porcellum raises the puzzle of governability in the Senate - Without an alliance with Monti, the Democratic Party will have difficulty governing - Monti will become decisive if he takes more than 30…
Maurizio Gardini, 53 years old from Forlì, agricultural entrepreneur and former head of the agri-food coops, will be the new president of Confcooperative, the giant of the white coops - Gardini takes the place of Luigi Marino who, after a long presidency, resigned…
In the midst of the electoral campaign, discussions begin on the formation of the new government, likely to be led by the Pd - It will be essential to understand the numerical consistency of the Monti operation - It is unlikely that the Premier will move to the Treasury, whose seat will however have to…
In a letter to the "Corriere della Sera" the former minister Tremonti tries to deny his authorship of the income meter by placing the responsibility on Monti but the newspaper does not fall for it and recalls that it was he who signed the institutive provision ...
Berlusconi and the League will go down in history as the poisoners of democracy with a bastard electoral law - But, out of misplaced cleverness, the Democratic Party did not fight to the end to cancel it - Only Napolitano and, lastly, Monti…
On Saturday the Professor will gather his 900 candidates in Bergamo, and right in the cradle of the green shirts he will explain the reasons for his economic program - Four key words: young people, women, work and family.
The director of the Economist, Bill Emmott, relaunches the questions sent to Bersani to which the Democratic secretary did not want to answer: "until he does and until the answers are convincing, there will be a shadow on the prospects…
The Cig will affect one production line at a time, while the workers in service will continue to produce the Puntos - From the company they explained that "the measure is necessary to carry out the investments planned for the plant" - Concern from Fiom.
Hard thrust by the Prime Minister at Cavaliere, hit on the crucial point of the lack of credibility and reliability - "Berlusconi is an illusionist, someone who has already deceived the Italians three times and the first time I let myself be deceived too"…
Political scientist Roberto d'Alimonte, full professor at Luiss and a great expert on electoral flows, warned Bersani in an interview with "La Stampa": "The Democratic Party is wrong to attack the premier because Monti is a barrier against Berlusconi and if he stays above the 8% to…
Santoro's evening with Berlusconi is the confirmation of how in the electoral campaign cabaret jokes about nothing prevail over the clarity and depth of a real political debate - It would be enough for the political forces to speak clearly on…
The Commissioner for Economic Affairs in Brussels does not name names, but the attack on Berlusconi and the support for the Professor are clear: "In September 2011, Italy had policies that were not consistent with its budgetary commitments. Since November 2011, however, he started…
Taxes ignite the electoral campaign but you can't count without the innkeeper - The last Berlusconi government raised the tax burden - Monti, by reducing the spread, instead saved Italy 59 billion: this makes it plausible that…
Is there so much discrepancy between the "technical" Monti who, for example, has increased taxes, and the one who "ascending" into politics proposes to lower them by at least one percentage point? No, that's why - And if the former prime minister is confirmed…
ELECTIONS - What happens in Milan and Lombardy will also be decisive for the Senate and therefore for future government balances - Three thoroughbred horses for the Lombardy Region: former mayor Albertini (who has the support of…
ELECTIONS AND CANDIDATURES - Alberto Bombassei, patron of Brembo, the former Berlusconi Santo Versace, and the president of Confcooperaive Luigi Marino are the leading names in the entrepreneurial representation of the Monti list - The Pd instead launches Giampaolo Galli,…
Research by four English scholars argues that the sustainability of the national health service is not questioned by the lengthening of the average life span but by the state of health with which citizens reach old age - This is why it is…
The premier's offensive against left and right conservatives targets those who underestimate the dimension of the global crisis, those who separate national policies from European ones and those who offer unrealistic solutions that risk canceling rigor without…
