(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The prime minister, Giuseppe Conte meets Payez al Sarraj, after the UN representative Ghassan Salame, and in the coming days Khalid al-Mishri, president of the High Council of State, followed by Aguila Saleh Issa, president of the parliament of Tobruk. The Palermo summit on 12 and 13 November is upon us and no mistake can be made. The watchword is dialogue with everyone. Having received the assurance from Putin of the sending of a high diplomatic representative (Medved?), Giuseppe Conte now hopes for the participation of the strong man from Cyrenaica, Kalifa Haftar. The Libyan media have long reported that Haftar would never have attended the Palermo summit, now the tone has changed and there is talk of a probable participation.
The Italian premier Giuseppe Conte has however said that Palermo will not be the solution to the problems of the Libya "dossier", but will constitute a single stage where all the parties will sit at a table for the first time.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, in these days, has also collected the support of Vladimir Putin on the whole Italian line of action in Libya and assurances on the possible purchase of Italian government bonds and this night he also received the support of the US president Donald Trump both on the Italian modus operandi in the “migration flows” affair and on the economic maneuver presented to the EU Commission.
Donald Trump's invitation was to not back down in both events. Other news that bodes well was given by the ECB, which highlighted the existence of enormous liquidity in the euro area due to the monetary policy implemented in recent years (Quantitative Easing). As is known, the tap of the Qe will shortly be closed by President Mario Draghi, but the excess liquidity introduced into the system, which today amounts to 1867 billion, is able to reassure the markets abundantly as it remains in Europe the ease in obtaining funding from the member countries.
Tornanco to Libya, a very important aspect for Italy, the economic interests that bind the two countries in history, is not to be ignored. The Sun 24 Writes Hours that were five billion Libyan liquid deposits (it was Gaddafi) in Italian banks, of which there are now amounts perhaps around the 3-400 million. The economic-financial dossier, therefore, is decisive in every present and future relationship with Libya.
The Tripoli Portfolio in Italy records 1% for Eni, 1,6% of Unicredit (years ago it had reached 7,5%), 2,011% in Leonardo, a stake also aimed at the acquisition of satellite technologies for border control for monitoring migratory flows, a project that never took off.
All holdings in foreign companies considered strategic go to Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Maitig, leader of the Misrata militias, but above all one of the main interlocutors of the West and plenipotentiary for economic issues.
But a new subject is coming, which on behalf of the government will manage the Italian economic and financial issues. This is the new ambassador Ornar Abdelsalam al Tarhouni, who speaks fluent Italian.