Piano Mattei, the opposite of Meloni

Perhaps, now that it aims to gain international credibility, it should be grateful that in past years no one has taken it too seriously. In the sense that, if anything this ambitious Mattei Plan for Africa will ever have to see the light of day, Giorgia Meloni will owe it largely to the fact that none of the things she invoked, with respect to energy and cooperation policies, have been implemented. The plan envisages exploiting Italy as a Mediterranean gas hub. And this was technically unfeasible until the Brothers of Italy, with the governor of Abruzzo Marsilio, opposed the construction of the booster station in Sulmona, so that the gas coming from Africa would be blocked there, in the middle of the country: a bottle” which was removed only because the Draghi government adopted the replacement powers. Then there is the question of extraction in the Adriatic. Even those reserves will have to be used: and Meloni has always sided against the drills (“Because they are a gift to the big lobbies”), up to fighting for the Yes in the 2016 referendum.