“Today's government mission in Algeria is only the last step in the diplomatic action carried out by President Draghi. In recent months, Italy has regained its natural leading role in the Mediterranean. In addition to reaffirming the solid relations of friendship between our countries, the visit to Algiers provides for the signing of bilateral agreements in [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Draghi's resignation is like a cold shower for all Western chancelleries. Only Italy, in its healthy madness, manages to force a personality like Mario Draghi to resign. We have an important figure who is respected, but above all who is listened to, almost with reverence, by Washington and Brussels. To us, […]
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In the Senate "we can only act consistently". And "we will not participate in the vote" of confidence on the aid. Giuseppe Conte told the parliamentarians of the 5-star Movement during a meeting last night. The M5s explained "their reasons", in particular on the extraordinary powers given to the Commissioner of Rome in view of the Jubilee. Powers [...]
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War of energy and wheat (by Massimiliano D'Elia) In the end Putin is probably succeeding in his crazy plan, which is not so crazy: to undermine Western democracies that for years have rested on the conviction of lasting peace guaranteed by NATO and the United Nations. Less convincing, however, is the Union's ability to influence [...]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday sent another video to talk to his people: "the Black Sea will be safe and ours, everything will be rebuilt, Russia does not have enough missiles to break the Ukrainians' will to live". Meanwhile the Kiev Parliament has banned the import of Russian books and newspapers and [...]
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Faced with a daily request for gas by Eni of approximately 63 million cubic meters, Gazprom has announced that it will supply only 50% of what is requested. Eni itself announced the data which, in response to the requests made by the Italian company, Gazprom informed that it would deliver only 65% [...]
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Yesterday Gazprom, the Russian state-owned energy company, returned to notify a further reduction of a third of its flows to the Old Continent through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, just a few hours after announcing a first drastic cut of the 40 %. The new development in the tug-of-war on methane supplies will bring [...]
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At the extraordinary European Council, the 27 must decide whether or not to apply the sixth package of sanctions to Russia. An arduous and much debated decision considering that there is no community of intent, each country looks to its own internal problems, especially as regards the issue of energy independence. "We cannot imagine that after the conflict the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The British secret services are certain: the Russian military is one step away from humiliating defeat in Ukraine, they have already lost 25 percent of their war capacity. The findings from the bulletin published yesterday from London tell us that the Ukrainians, thanks to weapons and Western know-how, are [...]
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“Touching, in every passage, the intervention of President Zelensky whom I witnessed today in the Montecitorio courtroom. Equally intense was the demonstration of solidarity and assistance that President Draghi expressed in the name of the Italian people. It is evident that this posture, in the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, imposes on Italy the need to search for sources of supply of [...]
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"This war will last a long time" and "we must prepare": French President Emmanuel Macron said today during a visit to the Agricultural Fair. Macron has ensured that weapons will be sent to Zelesky while Biden has sent 350 million dollars. Meanwhile, the Russian para are trying to leave Kiev without light, but they were [...]
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"In this morning's speech to the Chamber of Deputies by the Prime Minister Mario Draghi concerning the disclosure on the Ukrainian crisis, we perceive a turning point on Italian energy that we have not witnessed for over ten years" the statements of the President of FederPetroli Italia - Michele Marsiglia during the intervention. As Federpetroli Italia we perceive a will [...]
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Strong explosions were reported in Ukrainian cities in Odessa, Kharvik, Mariupol, Lviv and in the capital Kiev, where the Russians attempted to take control of the airport. Navigation in the Sea of Azov blocked. Russian tanks, with the 'Z' mark on the sides, would have entered Ukraine from numerous points along the border, including from Belarus and [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the "peace" interventions in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2021 and in Kazakhstan in January of this year, the intervention in Syria in 2015 in support of Bashar Assad, in Libya in 2017 to protect Khalifa Haftar and the Wagner mercenaries scattered from Cyrenaica [...]
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Even if the Pd, IV and Forza Italia pretend nothing has happened and make a square around Prime Minister Draghi for a new phase of the government of national unity, the aftermath of the divisions within the parties begin to make the whole castle creak. The center-right is no longer there and to say so is Giorgia Meloni who gives [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Yesterday the first "calls" for the election of the President of the Republic, a pitiful scene provided for by the Constitution, the reading of a useless sequence of blank ballots, waiting for the quorum to drop from day to day. just over 500 votes, a condition that will occur on the fourth day. A distortion of the Charter [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Silvio Berlusconi took a step back by withdrawing his candidacy, the Democratic Party got in the way of every proposal of the center-right thus making the game to elect the President of the Republic an increasingly tangled skein. Apparently the only solution that could be shared is to put on [...]
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The President of the Italian Banking Association, Antonio Patuelli, and the General Manager, Giovanni Sabatini, sent a letter to the President of the Council of Ministers Mario Draghi, to the competent Ministers and to the Governor of the Bank of Italy, with whom they represented the it is important that all the support measures for businesses envisaged by [...] be promptly reconfirmed in their entirety
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France and Germany will be protagonists in 2022, Paris will take over the presidency of the Community semester while Berlin will take over the presidency of the G7. There are many knots to be solved, from the pandemic to the climate emergency, from the strategic contrast with Russia and China to economic growth. Germany wants to make the G7 "forerunner of a climate neutral economy and a fair world", [...]
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The Quirinal Treaty comes to life with the signature that will be affixed next Thursday in Rome by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron. A full-bodied document consisting of a premise and eleven thematic chapters: Foreign, Defense, Europe, Migration, Justice, Economic development, Sustainability and ecological transition, Space, Education, training and [...]
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Enrico Letta threw the stone into the pond and all the leaders of the majority followed him to soften the tone on the forthcoming appointment of the President of the Republic and to concentrate seriously on the approval of the Budget Law. Everyone around a table to agree on the tax cut and then sit down at a second table [...]
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In the Update to the Def, the data is clear and very rosy, Italy is also growing in the third quarter of the year and GDP for 2021 can easily exceed the 6% threshold. Istat also confirms the good health of the Italian economy by certifying, between July and September, a + 2,6% compared to the previous three months. Our […]
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In Slovenia, in an informal meeting, EU leaders talk about common defense, strategic autonomy and energy dossier. No concrete decision emerged from the meeting, but a calendar which, in March 2022, could lead to the approval of a common defense plan. "There are scenarios in which we do not see NATO" and "it could be [...]
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The League does not participate in the Council of Ministers, Matteo Salvini does not send Giancarlo Giorgetti, Massimo Garavaglia and Erika Stefani to the highest level of the Government. The decision to insist on the reform of the land registry, and the method, for having asked for a "trust in the dark", made the straw overflow. It is a "serious gesture", replies Draghi. [...]
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The virtuous data of the economy for 2021 and 22 ', Mario Draghi affirms, are due to the success of the vaccination campaign: "vaccination is the basis of the recovery, schoolchildren are back at school: it was a difficult step but all in all solved with success". On the green pass side, writes the Ansa, the data on the download of the certificate [...]
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In a few days the "white semester" of the President of the Republic and the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini launches his "out out" to Prime Minister Draghi: "I wrote to Draghi and told him that by August the problem of landings must be solved. If the minister (Lamorgese ed) is not able to solve it, take some [...]
read more(by Enrica Cataldo, AIDR member) In his speech to the Senate to ask for trust in the new government, Prime Minister Draghi drew up a real long-term economic policy manifesto based on the driving force for investments, on the production of energy from renewable sources , high speed, electric mobility, production and distribution [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The second day of the European Council focused on Defense and Security, relations with NATO and the countries of North Africa. In March, the heads of state and government will speak, in more detail, on the future of EU relations with Turkey and Russia. The words of President Charles Michel [...]
read moreDraghi also has confidence in the Chamber with 535 Yes (the record remains in Monti with 556 votes in favor) but also 16 no and 4 abstentions from the M5s, while 12 Grillini deputies did not participate in the vote. In his speech to the House he took up some concepts already expressed in the Senate. Fighting corruption and [...]
read more"Good work to the new Draghi Government, from FederPetroli Italy maximum willingness to discuss issues on Energy Transition but we do not want to waste any more time" these are the wishes and words of the President of FederPetroli Italy - Michele Marseille after the oath of the new government. Marseille underlines "A new Department of Ecological Transition is welcome but [...]
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The advisor to the Minister of Health, Walter Ricciardi, immediately gave the first grain to the new Draghi government: "It is urgent to immediately change the strategy to combat SarsCov2: an immediate total lockdown throughout Italy is needed, which also includes closure of schools without prejudice to essential activities, but of limited duration. Neither […]
read more(by John Blackeye) It seemed to me a comment made on the streets of Rome, last night, by a thug who knows very little about economics and politics but who is probably struggling to make ends meet to put together lunch and dinner. . Looking at his companion in misfortune he solomonically said: "..to [...]
read moreAustere, serious and determined, this is how Mario Draghi appeared after dissolving the reserve with President Mattarella. After an hour of conversation with the Head of State he read his team: 23 ministers, 15 men and 8 women while the undersecretary to the Prime Minister will be Roberto Garofalo. Eight are the super technicians [...]
read more(by Francesco Matera) Yesterday the differential between Italian stocks and German Bund fell below 2015 for the first time since 100. An important signal that makes us understand only one thing, this time the path is the right one, to rely on Mario Draghi for the management of the large sum of money made available by the funds [...]
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Lagarde: "Although the containment measures at CoViD-19 will not lead to total lockdowns, they will have an impact on the economic recovery". (by Massimiliano D'Elia) During the Cco Summit organized by the Wall Street Journal, the president of the ECB Christine Lagarde said: “we are prepared to use all the tools at our disposal that are more effective”. The [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday a letter signed by the vice president, Valdis Dombrovskis, and the commissioner for economic affairs, Paolo Gentiloni, was sent to the president of the Eurogroup Mario Centeno. Today there will be the videoconference of the finance ministers of the eurozone. The letter pointed out that as regards the funds of the Mes (2 percent of GDP [...]
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Laura Naka Antonelli on FOL highlighted the issue of German Bunds valued at 850 billion dollars, which could offer zero returns. This is the result of the zero interest rate era, caused by the expansive monetary policy of the ECB, which increasingly characterizes the government bond market of the Eurozone countries [...]
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“I want to find that money now. #Conte and #Tria provide in some way ”, so Matteo #Salvini made his debut yesterday, while talking about the credits that the companies have left over from the Public Administration. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) The dry No to #minibot came directly from the Minister of Economy Giovanni Tria, from the president of the ECB, Mario [...]
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Mario Draghi, president of the ECB, during his last speech at the EU Parliament before its dissolution, declared that with the uncertainty that persists and that "questions the very existence of the EU", and the shadow of the recession that extends over the Eurozone, the European Central Bank begins to reload its weapons. "The current position is already very [...]
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According to the Reuters agency, the president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi would have told the Italian Finance Minister Giovanni Tria, behind closed doors after the Eurogroup meeting, that Italy's high public debt requires a degree of serious fiscal discipline. Draghi had already expressed concerns about the Italian situation during the press conference at the ECB last 25 [...]
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The president of the ECB from Bali to Indonesia, where he is participating in an important summit between the IMF and the World Bank, wanted to talk about the recent tensions between Italy and the EU Commission, "we are waiting for the papers on the maneuver and let us calm the tone". Phrases that want to soothe the spirits after the European Commission and the IMF — last Friday they evoked [...]
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The governor of the ECB Mario Draghi paid a visit to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. He was in Rome for some institutional activities and wanted to meet the Head of State to issue some warnings, “Beware of the maneuver. Do not underestimate the spread and the stock exchanges “. The governor's fear is due to the imminent deadline for placing [...]
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The president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, in a hearing in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament reported on the situation in the euro area, after the monetary policies of recent years. In times of uncertainty it is important for Europe to be united. The efforts of recent years to strengthen the governance of the Economic and Monetary Union have already [...]
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Mario Draghi announced yesterday in Riga, during a board meeting that the “bazooka” is about to end the injection of liquidity, referring to the quantitative easing procedure. This news has further unnerved the markets already stressed by the unknowns on tariffs. To offset the bad news, however, he said he will leave rates unchanged [...]
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Mario Draghi announced that the “bazooka” is about to end the injection of liquidity, referring to the quantitative easing procedure. This news has further unnerved the markets already stressed by the unknowns on tariffs and the next moves of the Italian government. On June 14 in Riga it will be decided when to reset Bond purchases. This is confirmed by Peter [...]
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The increase in tensions on the Italian markets has brought the BTP-Bund difference beyond the threshold of 200 basis points; this could have repercussions on the euro, even if for now the trend of the single currency has been determined by other factors. This is what the analysts of Goldman Sachs write in the daily report 'Global Markets Daily': "Most [...]
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The president of the ECB, Mario Draghi launches a warning for bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that is making the whole world talk due to the crazy fluctuations and related speculations. Today, a member of the Bank of Italy, Salvatore Rossi, also intervenes on the subject, calling them "speculative contraptions". And from Iceland comes a curious alarm: if the use of [...]
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Mario Draghi takes time on Qe Quantitative easing: the decision on the next downsizing of the bond purchase program postponed to October. And it does so by pushing itself to the maximum limit in the field of exchange rates: it describes the strong euro as a "source of uncertainty" that is beginning to worry. But the euro, instead of depreciating as expected, driven by [...]
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