Some time ago nobody would have imagined M5S and Lega sitting at the same table to discuss and decide the nascent government team. Di Maio's loving statements to this effect are unimaginable.
"Salvini and I have already substantially outlined the political structure of the team. The names and everything that derives from the personalities who will be part of it, all this will depend on Conte and President Mattarella".
"There is an ongoing dialogue with Salvini, because we are the political leaders of the two forces that support the government. Then there is a healthy conversation with President Conte who, I imagine, will consult with the Quirinale in the coming days. I don't know if it will end today. I imagine that tomorrow will serve him to fine-tune things, from a work point of view".
Di Maio did not want to go into the distribution of the dicasteries. However he said that "Economic Development and Labor is an area in which we want to work in a very strong way because, between corporate crises, a business that needs to be supported and workers who have so many problems linked to the absurd laws that have been made in recent years, I believe that all this can be a aspect of our identity". The same criterion “with which Salvini asks the Ministry of the Interior, because it represents one of the issues that the League has at heart. With Salvini and the Lega, he declared on the placement of Paolo Savona at the Mef, we are perfectly aligned but it is clear that there is work that passes between the prime minister in charge and the Quirinale.
If in Italy it seems to flow smoothly like oil, abroad all the major newspapers, on the front page, have traced the identikit of Premier Giuseppe Conte and placed doubts on the nascent government and especially on the government contract, in many points considered unconstitutional.
"Giuseppe Conte, the anti-system in power," he writes LE FIGARO, who today also dedicates an article to Sergio Mattarella, wondering if the President of the Republic is not “the last bastion of Europe to curb the projects of the new coalition” Lega-Movimento 5 Stelle.
Ample space on RELEASE to the promise contained in the 'contract for the government of change' to ban executive positions for exponents of Masonic lodges. For the leaders of the Grand Orient, the newspaper emphasizes, the ban is "unconstitutional" and therefore "greater vigilance" is necessary.
“Markets under pressure”, headlines instead THE ECHOES, underlining that the euro falls below 1,17 dollars, the lowest level since November, the indices move back and the Italian rate grows in the face of political uncertainties ”.
In Germany SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG on the front page it gives the news of “Conte, president in charge of Italy”. While he headlines the article inside "Rupture of rituals", for the choice of a "non-political" premier who "must put into practice a program that he did not help to implement".
La FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG he confines himself to giving a brief report of the fact that "Conte receives the task of forming the government" with the news of the day.
In Great Britain the FINANCIAL TIMES headlines "Conte obtains the mandate to be the Italian premier". And in the buttonhole: “The concerns of the industry. Businesses warn about the risks of cutting ties with the EU ”.
Both the TIMES and the DAILY TELEGRAPH they speak of "Roman revolution" and "Italian revolt". The first highlights what he calls a "democratic earthquake" which has led "populism to be the new mainstream", now also evoking a possible "next earthquake in Brussels". The pro-Tory and Eurosceptic TELEGRAPH observes, not without a certain sympathy for what is happening in Italy, that the "instruments of torture" ironically threatened by Juncker seem destined to be "ineffective" against the "well-armed revolt" that began in Rome.
In Spain EL PAIS returns to the question of curricula and headlines: "Conte will be prime minister of Italy despite doubts about his curriculum".
THE WORLD assures that "the choice of Conte, former left-wing voter, sympathizer of the M5S, shows that Di Maio has succeeded in imposing his candidate".
While THE NEWSPAPER writes: "Today begins an unprecedented adventure for Italy and for the European Union". And he adds: “It is a real adventure for the eurozone's third economy, too big to allow it to sink or to save it if it sinks, EU commissioners and analysts have warned”.