Dear director, Giorgia caput mundi. The Prime Minister would never have imagined being called to the rescue complete with top hat and top hat in hand by a Secretary of State like Pietro Parolin and by the mythological president of the IOC Thomas Bach. The objective was to ask the prime minister for help for the 2030 Jubilee and for the 2026 Olympics, given the inactivity of both the Milan-Cortina managing director, the already jubilant Vincenzo Novari, and the mayors of Rome, the former Virginia Raggi and Roberto Gualtieri. Parolin and Bach saw the immediate need for a boost that at that point could only come directly from the Prime Minister himself. And so Meloni, with a large delegation of ministers in tow, met Parolin at the Vatican in the Consistory Hall and Bach at Palazzo Chigi, along with Giovanni Malagò and Sports Minister Andrea Abodi. And, as if that were not enough, during the tour de force of meetings for the week, the Prime Minister also saw the delegates of the Bureau International des Expositions who will decide on Rome’s candidacy for Expo 2030, whose promotion committee is chaired by a champion like Giampiero Massolo. With them, Meloni pledged to become an “ambassador of Expo Roma 2030” in the world and to support the Italian candidacy in all the official visits she will make abroad as Prime Minister. A strategic candidacy not only for the Bel Paese, but for the entire European Union which, not surprisingly, has already positioned itself in favor of Italy in opposition to Riyadh. In fact, the city that is a symbol of the Arab world has committed huge economic resources, but it cannot compete with us in terms of democracy and transparency in investments, elements of no small importance in the final evaluations, even more so at a time when the entire world is committed to defending Western values against authoritarian regimes in Ukraine and not to mention the still looming shadow of Qatargate.
For the Expo supervisors it was a real event with important meetings with President Mattarella who received them at the Quirinal Palace in the Sala del Bronzino and other events that culminated with the great play of lights in the Colosseum, where the logo was reproduced in the sky of Rome Expo 2030 up to 500 drones were used. For Meloni, holding the Jubilee-Olympics-Expo “triplet” would represent a true consecration, especially after first Mario Monti, and then Virginia Raggi, said no to Rome’s candidacy for the 2020 and 2024 Olympics. But Giorgia wants to mark a change rhythm also in relation to the previous governments of Conte and Draghi, who squandered the available funds unnecessarily unlike you, who instead intend to put the best of the Italian system at work for the success of these three great showcases, thus relaunching the image of the country: from Enel of the new combination Scaroni – Cattaneo to Poste Italiane de Ferrovie by Luigi Ferraris to UniCredit by Andrea Orcel. In the Milan-Cortina dossier, the president of the International Olympic Committee and former fencer Thomas Bach, who had known Giorgia since before she became premier, breathed a sigh of relief as he noted the absence of former CEO Vincenzo Novari, with whom he was really bad blood and to which he attributes a tense climate inside and outside the Milano-Cortina Foundation, which was created due to inappropriate choices regarding the main institutional stakeholders. Not to mention the poor management of relations with the market of potential sponsors and the inefficiency registered even in what must have been its natural habitat, that is, the management of telecommunications, which only resulted in the most classic batch of first and second level managers. from your previous experience at H3G. It turns out that now, just over two years after the Olympic Games, Milan-Cortina’s designated partner, Fastweb, must sit down at the table with new CEO Andrea Varnier and new Operations and IT managers to execute the fix. . Giorgia Meloni is now faced with a well-defined Olympic framework, described in detail directly by Bach. Given the importance he attaches to the event, in all likelihood he will also want to do a real big operation on this case to understand what went wrong and get the machine back on track. Also because he has no intention of going down in history for any Virginia Raggi, who instead of scoring the “triples” sees himself with “zero titles”. Now you are studying with Merkel.
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
