On the day of the oath in Europe Draghi is appealed Super Mario, the man who at the helm of the European Central Bank saved the single currency and who is now preparing to save his country.
"His experience will be an extraordinary resource not only for Italy, but for all of Europe, especially in such a difficult time", the president of the European Commission rejoices on Twitter Ursula von der Leyen while the president of the European Council Charles Michel "I can not wait”To work with him again. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French president Emmanuel Macron have sent identical messages: “Let's work together for a stronger Europe, for a new multilateralism, for the future of young people ". Greetings also came from the British premier Boris Johnson, by the Austrian Chancellor Short, by the Spanish premier Pedro Sanchez and many other political leaders.
On the main international newspapers. In France Le Figaro he writes that "Mario Draghi overturned the Italian political chessboard" and "managed to rally almost all the parties in five days". While Le Monde assures that "Draghi assumes the leadership of a government that wants to reconcile cohesion, efficiency and representativeness". Also there BBC, from the United Kingdom, explains that Draghi "has secured the support of almost all the main political parties". In Spain the analysis of El Pais it is that the former president of the ECB has placed trusted people in key ministries such as the economy or justice, while at the same time pleasing parties with different portfolios.
On the other side of the world the New York Times defines it "a giant of Europe ". While it is the Wall Street Journal to undertake to list the problems that Italy should face: "burdensome taxes, bureaucracy, slow courts, an outdated and underfunded education system, crumbling infrastructure. Mister Draghi has a lot of money to spend in his favor". German too Der Spiegel, in an editorial a few days ago, indicated as a top priority "to spend the over 200 billion euros" of the Recovery Fund in a reasonable way, even though Draghi "is now faced with a more difficult task", compared to work done at the ECB. It is precisely in the German press that we can find some scant critical references to the figure of the new Prime Minister. The hardest is there BILD, the only one to brush up on the accusations made against Draghi in the years of his presidency at the ECB and the alleged impact on German savers of his monetary policy choices.