Newsgroup: it.politica.pds
Titolo: NY Times: Berlusconi 'molto confuso'

January 7, 2002
Italian Leader Takes Over Foreign Slot From Ex-Aide
By MELINDA HENNEBERGER
OME, Jan. 6 - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy has decided to serve
as the country's foreign minister, too, while mulling the choice of a
successor to Renato Ruggiero, who resigned on Saturday.
Mr. Berlusconi's spokesman said in an interview tonight that the prime
minister would not be simply a caretaker, either, but planned to revamp the
ministry. The prime minister, who is Italy's richest man, wants to see a
more pro-business foreign service and diplomats more in the Berlusconi mold.
"Our enterprises are not well-supported," said the spokesman, Paolo
Bonaiuti, speaking of the current Italian diplomatic corps, "and we want a
different approach, more in the Anglo-Saxon way, where an ambassador could
be a businessman or a friend to the president, a man who has proven his
talents another way."
"We need a different approach, less diplomatic, more economic," he went on,
"with people who may go abroad and make investments."
Mr. Ruggiero, a former director general of the World Trade Organization,
left the government after saying it was insufficiently supportive of the
euro and European integration.
His departure is considered a significant blow to Mr. Berlusconi's
center-right government because of his standing abroad and in Italy, where a
national poll several days ago showed him with a higher approval rating than
anyone else in public life.
Yet Mr. Bonaiuti called The New York Times tonight and made clear that Mr.
Ruggiero had left the government at Mr. Berlusconi's request.
A government statement on Saturday called the decision "consensual." An
Italian diplomat had said the resignation became inevitable after Mr.
Berlusconi's comments in the newspaper La Repubblica on Friday, dismissing
Mr. Ruggiero as "just a technocrat" whose views on Europe were irrelevant.
"There's no possibility that what he says can have any political
consequence," Mr. Berlusconi was quoted as saying.
Mr. Bonaiuti, though, said it was Mr. Berlusconi who had concluded that the
resignation was inevitable, after reading La Repubblica and seeing Mr.
Ruggiero's response to being called "just a technocrat."
"Mr. Berlusconi did not understand why Mr. Ruggiero was saying `I'm not a
technician,' " Mr. Bonaiuti said, since it is the prime minister who is
responsible for the country's foreign policy, which the foreign minister
then carries out.
The chain of command "appeared very confused," at that point, the spokesman
said, "so Mr. Berlusconi called Mr. Ruggiero and said how difficult it was
to see this collaboration going on, and Mr. Ruggiero said, `O.K., I'll
leave.' "
Asked about that account, a spokesman for Mr. Ruggiero said that "the former
minister's wish is not to add a single word to the statement issued last
night" by Mr. Berlusconi's office.
Mr. Berlusconi said he would serve in both jobs for "as long as is
necessary" and would see that Italian foreign policy remained "intrinsically
pro-European."
His opponents said that was far from clear, however, and called for an
emergency parliamentary debate on the resignation.
"This is a very severe blow to the prestige and credibility of Italy," said
Piero Fassino, the leader of the largest opposition party, the Democrats of
the Left.
Mr. Ruggiero's counterparts across Europe, including Foreign Minister
Joschka Fischer of Germany and Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine of France,
said he would be keenly missed.
Giulio Baresani Varini, a fund manager with Banca Leonardo SGR in Milan,
said, "There will not be a major reaction, but this is not good for Italy's
image."
Mr. Bonaiuti's own assessment was much the same. "The left is crying and
saying it's a disaster," he said. "It's not a disaster." But he acknowledged
that the transition could still be problematic. He said it had come at an
especially unfortunate time since Italy was to hold the rotating presidency
of the European Union for six months next year.
Mr. Ruggiero had repeatedly differed with members of the government over
European policy. Since the government took office in June, Italy had
withdrawn from a major European military project and tried to block a
Europe-wide arrest warrant aimed at fighting terrorism.
Last week, after Italy got off to a slow start with the euro, Mr. Ruggiero
took several of his fellow ministers to task for criticizing the switch, and
suggested that Mr. Berlusconi should have done more to support it.
"The debate on Europe has been one of the most difficult for this
government," Mr. Ruggiero said on Wednesday, sounding even then as if he was
already looking back at his tenure as foreign minister. "The differences of
opinion aren't marked; they are very marked."

 leave.' "
Non so dove hai studiato inglese (probabilmente a Grosny), ma quello che
l'articolo dice č che Berlusconi ha ritenuto che a quel punto (dopo il
battibecco sul ruolo tecnico di Ruggiero e su chi debba decidere quale
politica estera adottare) la catena di comando apparisse troppo confusa e
che quindi fosse meglio interrompere la collaborazione con Mr. Ruggiero.
Bravo comunque, un tentativo di disinformazione usando una lingua straniera
ti fa onore, dimostra quanto desideri renderti utile, sicuramente alla sede
del partito ti offriranno almeno 10 gr di vodka come ricompensa.
Massimo

 del partito ti offriranno almeno 10 gr di vodka come ricompensa.
Nella tua azienda di partito non ti daranno nemmeno la bandierina di
sforzaitaglia: sei troppo stupido.

 sforzaitaglia: sei troppo stupido.
Come al solito, quando un bravo comunista viene preso con le mani nel sacco
(leggi: a dire stronzate senza base oggettiva), reagisce con l'insulto
gratuito e anche, sinceramente, assurdo: perchè tu potrai anche non essere
d'accordo con le mie idee, ma credo che chiunque (naturalmente non di parte)
legga i miei post ed i tuoi non abbia dubbi su chi è più intelligente!!
E mi pare che il problema sull'ironia ce l'abbia molto più tu di me, visto
come rispondi alle battute di spirito!
Beviti la tua meritata vodka e dormi tranquillo!!
Massimo

 Beviti la tua meritata vodka e dormi tranquillo!!
Io sono serenissimo, solo un pň preoccupato per il tuo cervello che č andato
a suicidarsi.

 
Non voglio entrare nell'argomento, ma questa è una balla!
Fini è uno degli uomini più ignoranti d'Italia? Ma va là!
Ciao
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 Ciao
In economia certo che sì. E inoltre, come parecchi nel governo, non sa
l'inglese. Cosa abbastanza grave per un ministro degli esteri, non trovi?

 delle quote latte, per esempio).
I ministri degli esteri con le quote latte non c'entrano niente: sono decise
dai ministri dell'agricoltura. Tu hai idee molto vaghe, evidentemente, sulle
istituzioni europee.
Poi, come ogni bravo statalista, sei convinto che il corpo diplomatico debba
fare ciņ che fanno (e spesso molto bene) le camere di commercio. Il tuo
idolo č convinto di dover usare lo stato per rubare il mestiere a tutti.
Chissą che ne pensa Formigoni, che ha aperto una rappresentanza commerciale
anche a Pechino.