(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The rescue anchor for all crises across the border is the president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. The leaders of other countries are increasingly turning to the Quirinale to resolve and dilute "embarrassing" situations. This time the French president Macron did not linger a moment and turned to the Italian president to find the thread of reasonableness on which to anchor the historical relationships, to say of the French "exceptional", between France and Italy.
During the telephone conversation, Macron expressed the wish to have Mattarella as his guest at the Élysée. Mattarella, of course, accepted the invitation and expressed regret at the withdrawal of the French ambassador from Rome. In the evening then the news that the transalpine ambassador will soon return to Italy.
A French diplomatic source then wanted to clarify: "Our gesture has never been against the Italian people but a reaction due to unacceptable behavior of some members of the current government". Ambassador Christian Masset is still in Paris for a series of institutional events. Tomorrow he will meet the minister Elisabeth Borne, a counterpart of Danilo Toninelli, to discuss the thorny issue of Tav. "We will continue to have divergent positions on some dossiers from time to time, concludes the French diplomatic source - but we hope that there is now greater awareness that problem solving must be sought together".
If a patch was put on with France, a very thorny one could become the relationship with the usual ally, Donald Trump's United States. Di Maio will go to the US in a month on an official visit. The opportunity will be tempting for the Trump administration to ask for the necessary clarifications on F35 and some voices of support for Maduro, as well as on the Italian withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Mattarella-Moavero Milanesi axis, therefore, is working in the shadows and away from the rhetoric of the leaders of the yellow-green government in an attempt to keep the country in the wake of the nations that matter at European and global level. At least these are the assumptions, later denied by the facts: Very "embarrassing" is the fact that while Macron was talking on the phone with Mattarella, the French Mirage fighters landed at the N'jamena base after about ten days of continuous bombing in southern Libya. A military campaign, writes La Verità, carried out in silence and moreover not agreed with Italy. The French bombings ended as soon as General Khalifa Haftar took possession of the most important oil field in Libya, the Sahara, located in Fezzan, right where Italy has many interests and is present with Eni.