(by Andrea Pinto) The American Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo yesterday he was in Italy for a meeting with the premier Giuseppe Conte and with his foreign colleague, Luigi Di Maio. Thus Pompeo on the sidelines of the meetings: "The United States calls on the Italian government to carefully consider national security and the confidentiality of its citizens' data with the technology companies that are part of the surveillance system of the Chinese Communist Party ".
Di Maio just before he had said: "I take the opportunity of this meeting to convey a message: Italy is firmly anchored to the United States and the European Union to which we are united by common values and interests ”.
While a "ferocious" electoral campaign is underway in the US for the presidential elections, Trump's right-hand man is rushed to Europe by one of the most strategic allies, Italy, to reaffirm the American line on Chinese 5G and clear any doubts to Di Maio on the idea of joining Beijing's technology.
President Conte reassured the other US representative on the attention of the Italian government on the issue, highlighting that Italian legislation is very careful on the matter. Law Decree 105 of 2019, in fact, established the national cyber security perimeter to ensure a high level of security of the networks, information systems and IT services of public administrations, bodies and national operators, public and private, from on which the exercise of an essential function of the state depends.
Conte then stressed to Pompeo that the security of a country is stronger if the security of the ally is strong. Not least is another aspect of competition in the procurement of materials: the upcoming European regulations, said Conte, should guarantee EU countries and companies not to have to face high costs for the same supplies in this field as others. offer low price.
The Turkey-Greece and Libya dossiers were also discussed in the meeting. Especially for Libya, Corsera reveals, Conte would have asked the US for help. Let's not forget that Libya (Gen. Haftar) still has 18 fishermen hostage, of which 8 are Italian.