(September 22) Franco Frattini's the best Italian foreign minister I have met for several decades now. Talk inappuntabilmente languages, knows many things and can answer questions tone, even the most complicated of Italian and foreign journalists.
E 'from him that I learned, for example, that migration takes place in Italy in the 35,000 female genital mutilation each year. Or even some unexpected aspects of international financial transactions, such as the fact that if you force banks to halve the exorbitant fees charged on remittances migrants in Europe, the poor countries from which they come would receive $ 15 billion more each year.
But there is a problem, but not about what a minister says so effective. It concerns what is not said, or perhaps does not want to say.
For example, when I asked him, after a press conference in New York, if you could declare something on the investigation underway by the Italian authorities on the movements of some current accounts of the Vatican in Italy, and the freezing of approximately $ 30 million belonging to such accounts by the financial police, has made a small step back and just mumbled, "No, we lacked even the investigation in the Vatican. "Meanwhile, his spokesman made frantic gestures to silence, and as if to say that I would never have asked such a thing and that I never had an answer.
Why? The Holy See is not a foreign nation? We do not entertain diplomatic relations with it at ambassadorial level, and therefore the foreign ministry is not the right body to penetrate what it is obscure behind the Bronze Door? The Vatican has done, through a spokesman, official statements. And the Minister Frattini? Speaking with a colleague who saw him often, I wondered why the minister had fallen from the clouds. But he ruled that he did not know by heart the facts, adding, "' solo bravissimo a fingere di cadere dalle nuvole.” Allora, un altro talento che non gli conoscevo.
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