"But what does Luigi Di Maio want? I am not a minister, or an undersecretary, I have not sworn on the French Constitution ", so the new director of Macron, the Italian Sandro Gozi, responded to the Italian controversy in an article by Repubblica.
It should be remembered that Sandro Gozi was a politician in the ranks of the Democratic Party and Undersecretary for EU Affairs in the Renzi and Gentiloni governments.
The Italian attack on the PD politician has come almost in a choral manner from our own politicians, who have even called for the withdrawal of Italian citizenship.
The transalpine Gozi in response recalled the dark references of history by shaking the specter of cryptofascism: "In Paris they are stunned. My collaboration is seen as a sign of friendship. In Rome, instead, they want me stateless".
Some leftist intellectuals call Gozi a "transnational" politician, to avoid accusing him of something more serious.
Carlo calenda on twitter, however, it was laconic: "You do not enter a foreign government, you are not a working group, but for two months in the French government you have held the position you held in our government, knowing positions and interests, even if reserved, that do not always coincide. It simply does not exist".
Then always calenda replied to Ivan Scalfarotto who spoke of Europe as a common home: "If you have managed European dossiers for your government and have access to confidential information, you cannot go to the same job or be similar for another government. For two months then it is a ridiculous and harmful joke".
Calenda has always risen up on the conflict of interest law: "If you can not, after having made the minister, go to work in Eni for conflict of interests, I do not understand how it can be allowed to do it for another government".
In the PD, notes the Belpietro newspaper "La Verità", the silence is embarrassing.
Rather, better to throw the second lines in what looks like a kamikaze defense. "History, tragedy and farce ... For the fascists of the past it was "traitor" who collaborated with the "demoplutocrazie", while they sold off Italy to the invader.
The fascistelli of today beat those who collaborate with French democracy while selling Italy to Vladimir Putin ", tweets Andrea Romano, deputy and director of Democratica. Alessia Morani of the PD: "This morning Di Maio said that he wants to remove Gozi's citizenship. He who wanted to make an alliance with yellow vests. The question at this point is: what would you like to take away from our statesman of the zero mandate?".
Giorgia #Melons, instead, he has no hair on his tongue and was the first with a letter to the Journal to invoke the revocation of citizenship: "It is simply surreal that someone who has held the post of undersecretary of the Italian government with responsibility for European Affairs, as soon as he has taken office, assumes a position substantially analogous to the French government ".
Then the Melons on social media: "We want to know what are the merits for which Sandro Gozi is repaid by the French. This is why we presented a question and ask the Italian government to protect itself, to ask Sandro Gozi not to accept that post, or to revoke his citizenship, as required by a law of 1991 evidently made against traitors. "
Matteo #Salvini, on twitter: "We are with the carabinieri, someone else goes to find criminals. We are with the Italians, someone obviously has other interests. Pd, always on the wrong side".
But what Italian "dossiers" does Gozi know? InsideOver reveals it
When Calenda was minister and Gozi, then in the Italian government, undersecretary for European affairs, Rome and Paris were negotiating the merger between Fincantieri and Stx. The Saint Nazaire affair began, one of the most important industrial intrigues between Italy and France and in which Macron, as soon as he was elected at the helm of the Elysée, immediately left his mark. And certainly not in favor of Italy. So much so that after a few months - with a move judged by Rome as a real rude - the French government has in fact unleashed the European Antitrust to stop the acquisition by Fincantieri. A move with which the French shielded themselves from the accusation of "nationalism", invoking the European competition rules, but which in fact served to Macron to stop a merger that Paris did not like for two reasons: to give an economic advantage to an Italian company and above all to have Italy in that construction site. South Koreans are better than Italians: this is the not too subtle message sent from the banks of the Seine to those of the Tiber. A story for which the CEO of Fincantieri Bono recently threatened to resign.
If this hot dossier would be enough to make people understand why Calenda's words are important, which not by chance speaks of "positions and interests", another fact should not be underestimated: the presence of Gozi when the Gentiloni government (under the aegis of Sergio Mattarella) he initiated the prosecutor's offices of the "Patto del Quirinale". It is an agreement with which Italy and France, on the model of the 1963 Paris-Berlin agreement, should have coordinated on various strategic policies. Agreement remained very vague and above all without real importance, given that after about a year, Macron signed the Treaty of Aachen with Angela Merkel. And in fact that of the Quirinale became a B-series pact. In Europe, France did not want Italy as a partner: but Germany.
While Paris continued to make rudeness against Rome, then came the explosion of the crisis in Libya, with General Khalifa Haftar advancing towards Tripoli. Supported precisely by France, which has always made it possible for Italy not to lead the political transition of the North African country, the Marshal of Cyrenaica has effectively hit the government supported by Italy. But not only that, with a siege supported by Egypt and Arab powers, it put at risk the whole strategy of the United Nations and the Italian government, putting our gas at risk and giving way to a potential escalation on the subject of migrants. All with the support of France which, by chance, sent its special forces right to the Haftar side. And that he has every interest in blasting Italian plans. And it was always Gozi, the one present in the government when the crisis in Libya was about to flare up again.
Now, with these hot files that divide us and with a government that is opposed to the one in which Gozi participated, the former undersecretary dem decides to move to the other side: to Paris. And it is clear that this move cannot be considered "disturbing", as claimed by the entire current executive but also by the opposition. What Macron has in his hands is a weapon: because Gozi knows perfectly what is happening at Palazzo Chigi, he had in his hands all the files that directly contrasted Italy and France.