Once again Matteo Renzi demonstrated to be not able to deal with Realpolitik. Weaker at home and absent abroad, this is the political novel of a missing leader
Opinion
Something is wrong with Matteo Renzi. Italian prime minister still doesn't know how to deal with European affairs, and still has not people able to suggest him what to do. If he has, his staff always suggest the most stupid thing to do. It's neither not polite nor not intelligent making public a letter strictly confidential, as Renzi did with EU Commission letter sent to Italy asking information about the stability law. Screaming and threatening to publish the expenditure plan of an Institution is something never seen before from a politician, of course not from an head of government. In only one day Renzi was able to boost the general common lack of confidence in Italy and its leaders. First of all because of the diffusion of confidential documents: now everybody knows Italy can't keep anything secret. Secondly, Renzi in threatening the EU Commission of publishing all the financial data forgot the whole budget is already available on the web (click here, if you want to check it out), so he basically promised to do nothing but something already done by others. Who are these “others”? The European Commission, obliged by law to make public all the information on expenditure.
There's nothing strange in be transparent, unless you can't be. Renzi can be right in intention, it's not in practice. Putting a letter on the website of the ministry of Economy is not the right way to disclose the contents of the document. Equally, screaming is not the right way to gain political consensus. Furthermore talking about something already exists is the demonstration of a person who's not up to the situation. And that's what Renzi is about: a politician not up to the task. Be braggart is the only possibility to hide all that. Finding two billion Euro out in a morning is just a way - a wrong one - to show off instead of showing to be competent and credible. But Renzi is not credible. He already gave this impression first, and then he confirmed it. Once again, he's not having any exchange of view with other leaders: he didn't attend the socialist pre-EU council meeting, he was late to the European Council meeting (and so he missed the opportunity to have bilateral meetings). A leader is a leader if he is among leaders, otherwise he's not. Renzi has political problems at home and is politically absent and ineffective abroad. Definitely not a great new for Italy.
Something is wrong with Matteo Renzi. Italian prime minister still doesn't know how to deal with European affairs, and still has not people able to suggest him what to do. If he has, his staff always suggest the most stupid thing to do. It's neither not polite nor not intelligent making public a letter strictly confidential, as Renzi did with EU Commission letter sent to Italy asking information about the stability law. Screaming and threatening to publish the expenditure plan of an Institution is something never seen before from a politician, of course not from an head of government. In only one day Renzi was able to boost the general common lack of confidence in Italy and its leaders. First of all because of the diffusion of confidential documents: now everybody knows Italy can't keep anything secret. Secondly, Renzi in threatening the EU Commission of publishing all the financial data forgot the whole budget is already available on the web (click here, if you want to check it out), so he basically promised to do nothing but something already done by others. Who are these “others”? The European Commission, obliged by law to make public all the information on expenditure.
There's nothing strange in be transparent, unless you can't be. Renzi can be right in intention, it's not in practice. Putting a letter on the website of the ministry of Economy is not the right way to disclose the contents of the document. Equally, screaming is not the right way to gain political consensus. Furthermore talking about something already exists is the demonstration of a person who's not up to the situation. And that's what Renzi is about: a politician not up to the task. Be braggart is the only possibility to hide all that. Finding two billion Euro out in a morning is just a way - a wrong one - to show off instead of showing to be competent and credible. But Renzi is not credible. He already gave this impression first, and then he confirmed it. Once again, he's not having any exchange of view with other leaders: he didn't attend the socialist pre-EU council meeting, he was late to the European Council meeting (and so he missed the opportunity to have bilateral meetings). A leader is a leader if he is among leaders, otherwise he's not. Renzi has political problems at home and is politically absent and ineffective abroad. Definitely not a great new for Italy.
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