Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday
slammed the Agnellis over a story in their Left-leaning daily la
Repubblica two days ago saying "Italy Is For Sale", with the
premier accusing the family that "sold Fiat to the French" of
hypocrisy in raising an unwarranted alarm over an alleged 20
billion euros of privatisations to fix public accounts including
rail company Ferrovie dello Stato, Poste Italiane, Monte dei
Paschi bank and energy giant Eni.
"The front page of Repubblica made me smile: Italy is for sale,"
said the premier on a Berlusconi channel.
"That's all well and good, but that this accusation comes from
the newspaper owned by those who took Fiat and sold it to the
French, who transferred their fiscal and legal headquarters
abroad, and put the sites of our historic Italian companies up
for sale on real estate sites... I don't know if the title was
an autobiography, but the lessons of safeguarding Italianism
from these pulpits is a bit rich".
During the interview with Quarta repubblica, to be broadcast
Monday evening on Rete4, she never named the Agnellis.
phto: Agnelli heir John Elkann
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