Blackstone bets on Italy, “regardless of the Pnrr”, and rewards it more than Germany, France and the UK

The news is sensational and it is worth summarizing it with a number: fifteen billion. The sensational news concerns Italy, concerns its state of health, concerns its trajectory, concerns its perception outside our borders and concerns an unexpected feature of our economic fabric: its unexpected attractiveness. The sensational news comes from Blackstone, one of the most important financial companies in the world, a company specializing in private equity, real estate investments, investment funds, and it is news that concerns a surprising fact. And the data is this. Among the countries of the European Union in which Blackstone has currently chosen to invest the most, it turns out to be, surprisingly, not the United Kingdom, not France, not Germany, not Spain, but Italy.