Giorgetti, the German. He looks to Merz, who "can help us", worried about Trump who "breaks us up" and "creates a mess"

Giorgetti, like Meloni, “wanted to die”. He wanted to die, yesterday evening, when Palazzo Chigi called his and Minister Pichetto Fratin's draft on the high cost of energy “unsatisfactory”. He wanted to die , after returning, for the last time, from Brussels, and confided: “We are chasing Trump who is breaking up Europe, who is making a mess, with tariffs, but we are forgetting about Europe and Germany. How can we not understand this? Be careful not to crush ourselves on Trump. Merz's new government can help us”. Giorgetti did not want to die as a Trumpian.

The extraordinary Meloni, the one who went off the air, the prime minister who, at the end of her speech to American conservatives, explodes, in the Roman style, “I wanted to die”, should revive, and she already did yesterday with a call to Merz, the friendship between Rome and Berlin, should remember that Italy already flies with Germany, with the airlines Ita-Lufthansa. Meloni, who does not want to die of debt, must now take into account this new actor, Chancellor Merz, the role that Germany will have in Europe and, again, take into account that the economic rules will be made by the German hawks, even if battered, more plucked chicks than hawks, that the spread always remains the differential between Italian BTPs and German bonds.

His Minister of Economy, Giorgetti, who comes to Europe with a record, the longest-serving of economic ministers, when he returns to Italy, from his regular meetings at Ecofin, says that Germany, and Friedrich Merz had not yet won, "is opposed to everything". Giorgetti says that the last time there was talk of Defense, of separating military spending from debt, the proposal of von der Leyen, the outgoing German minister, also wanted dead. He said "no", he said that the method was all to be studied. On the need to separate, the German was not against, but when it came to how to do it, Germany proposed that each country of the EU individually ask for the exemption. People will say: and what changes? It changes. It changes, because a common method means less unbalanced relations between the countries of the Union. It changes, because the country that asks is always the country that needs.

Germany will have a new Minister of Economy, and there are two names in the running, Jeans Spahn, Merkel's former Minister of Health, while the other is the socialist Lars Klingbeil. Is there reason to die? For Giorgetti, there is hope. There is hope that Meloni will be able to have the same relationship she has had so far with Trump because, Giorgetti thinks, "otherwise we risk becoming too tied to Trump and ending up exposed in Europe". Is there reason to fear? For Giorgetti, yes, there is reason to fear, if France were to tighten that relationship before Italy. Merz is on paper a hawk, he is the pupil of Schäuble's former minister, the late and great friend of Giulio Tremonti, but Germany also needs to loosen the rules and for Giorgetti "this can make things easier for us". The Council of Ministers scheduled today on the high energy prices was cancelled because for Meloni the measures of Mef and Mase were not "sufficient". The aid promised to families, when it arrives, will be financed either by finding resources in the budget or by resorting, once again, to more debt. You can do anything, but to create debt you need a solid government and to have a solid government you need, Giorgetti believes, in addition to having Meloni at the helm, also to have good friends. For Meloni, the good friend is Trump, but, for Giorgetti, Merz will be the chancellor with whom you will have to sit down at the table, in Brussels. In Veneto, the members of the Northern League are already saying: "Europe has finally found a Trump who is not a Trump". Luca Zaia has never made a secret of the fact that the idea of ​​the twin parties CDU/CSU has always been an old idea cultivated by the League and there are already those who have moved, like the Lombardy region, to catch up with Germany. The first to understand that the future of Europe, and of Italian companies, depends on relations with the Germans was the councilor for Economic Development of the Lombardy Region, Guido Guidesi, a student of Giorgetti, who last month was elected president of the Alliance of European Automotive Regions. These are the German and Italian regions, the ones most affected by the car crisis. Another who was elected, last week, vice president of the European Committee of the Regions, is Matteo Bianchi, also a student of Giorgetti. Up to now, Italy has benefited from the Franco-German instability, but there are small Italian companies, like the minister's Varese, that export exclusively to Germany, companies that need their orders. At the Ministry of Economy and Finance they are convinced that if Germany improves, our exports will improve, but Meloni, says Stefano Patuanelli, senator of the M5s, former minister of Agriculture with Draghi, "is choosing the other side, she is not realizing that we need Europe". For Giorgetti, we would need to find a “special” relationship with Starmer’s England, in short, do as Meloni has already done, be a Trumpian and then say (maybe to Merz) “but do you know that I wanted to die”? At the moment, American funds believe in the Meloni government and the spread has remained stable. All true. But Meloni wouldn’t hurt to listen to Paolo Conte, and Giorgetti, to avoid, as in the song Mocambo , to answer Merz: “I speak German badly, excuse me, pardon”.

Carmelo Caruso

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