During the press conference on the sidelines of the European Council in Brussels, Mario Draghi was consecrated as the new leader of the Union called to "succeed", for the "acclamation" of Italy alone, it is good to say it to the German Chancellor Angela Dorotea in order to avoid curious misunderstandings. Merkel.

We are as usual dialectical “indifference”, to the “easy narrative” and not very attentive, supported by those who seem to know nothing about the dynamics of supranational power and its ways of exercising. But someone, among these dreamer "visionaries", has fully understood (and / or questioned) what the real function could ever be, beyond any appearance and / or immediate sensationalistic perception, and with it the purpose of Mario Draghi in the current Italian and European political system? What "historical compromise", signed with "who", may have ever induced the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to break every regulatory framework of constitutional importance, to disregard any "democratic / governmental" interlocutory and decision-making principle to allow, with the unconditional approval of practically all parties (anomalous circumstance, the latter, to be considered, in turn, autonomously), the full and undisputed consecration of the former president of the European Central Bank in the "extended" role of President of the Council of Ministers? To what higher interest did Sergio Mattarella and with it the whole of Italy, probably in spite of themselves, have to succumb? One reflection applies to all: the Italian side has always represented, and continues to represent, despite everything, the “uncovered nerve” of the archetype of the Union; the destinies of the continent are not reflected in it, nor will they ever be reflected in it, but our country concurs, together with the other members, and in its small way, to determine the "quomodo" of the complex system that still supports the creaky community structure.

On the specific profile, nothing has actually changed, regardless of the "guarantees" offered by Mario Draghi whose presence, unlike those who show they want to believe, constitutes, if anything, the "proven proof" of Italy's "impartiality" in the political project / institutional soon to be built which, with good verisimilitude, will root its legitimacy on a new revised Franco-German axis finalistically aimed at containing the growing "autonomic power" of the so-called "Visegrad" countries. Moreover, the recent Polish case is emblematic: ignoring it or, worse, not considering its long-term effects can be a problem. In such a context, Italy can probably represent, if necessary, only an element of "dynamic stability" of a pre-established and otherwise unattainable Axis. Meanwhile, because, "mutatis mutandis", not even with Mario Draghi, it was not possible to resolve the Italian parliamentary complexity, still too weak and precarious to resist the "external" repercussions coming from the great European powers, and still largely contradictory for not succumb to the ideological lure induced by the "glaring trap" of a government crisis which, with good verisimilitude, would result in an unprecedented collapse. Therefore, because Mario Draghi's arrival at Palazzo Chigi coincided with a particular moment in European life, namely the one concerning the end of the long and undisputed dominance of Angela Merkel whose successor, whoever he is, will necessarily have to follow the difficult path . Moreover, because, in the context so briefly described, Mario Draghi can only represent “the Middle Man” called to lead, and consequently legitimize, a handover of which he will never be a real protagonist. Let's face it with a sacrosanct reason. Finally, because we will have to wait for the results of the next French elections in 2022 to understand what will be not only the personal destiny of Emmanuel Macron (real, albeit still potential, successor of the German chancellor), but of the whole of Europe, which could be overwhelmed from the effects of that famous "Aachen Pact" too often deliberately ignored.

“Whatever it takes”. This and only this continues to be the content and substance of Mario Draghi's work: it is forbidden to go “further”. The time will come, once the pandemic risk has been averted, in which it will be necessary to put a stop to any convenient monetary policy (admitted and not granted that it is convenient) only because it will no longer be considered suitable to respond to the superior interests of the Market and its rigid rules: and then the undisputed and indisputable "divinity", the Best Italian, will return to being, in the collective imagination, no more and no less than any one. Moreover, his activity does not appear accompanied and supported by a political legitimacy in the strict sense of having never been formally "elected". So that its current power, forcibly declined on its own pathological origin, qualifies as a kind concession necessarily limited in time. That same power which today, in the absence of a realistic centralization, is aimed at ensuring that the resources of the Recovery Fund do not go to increase the inequalities between the various Member States and / or, worse, to feed the various national egoisms. If Mario Draghi, in the context of the temporal fraction of operations granted to him, succeeds in imposing a new appreciable economic model suitable for supporting employment and promoting growth, it will all be considered.

Giuseppina Di Salvatore

(Lawyer - Nuoro)

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