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Who is Piero Benassi, as diplomatic adviser to Conte ai Servizi

2021-01-22T09:49:34.326Z


Piero Benassi was head of the Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Emma Bonino and Federica Mogherini. Right arm of Giuseppe Conte on the very delicate dossiers addressed by the premier in the two governments he leads (ANSA)


by Michele Esposito

Level ambassador.

Head of Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Emma Bonino and Federica Mogherini.

Right arm of Giuseppe Conte on the very delicate dossiers faced by the premier in the two governments led by him.

Piero Benassi is the undersecretary to the presidency of the Council with the delegation to the Services chosen by the Council of Ministers.

A choice that falls on a man of utmost confidence in the head of the government but also on a profile that, to the Democratic Party, cannot displease.

The transfer of the delegation materializes Conte's "outstretched hand" to dialogue on the intelligence issue just as Matteo Renzi is bringing together the Iv groups.

It is a "political" choice that comes on a day of substantial impasse in the negotiations for the constructor group.

A choice with which, however, Conte does not yield on one point: to allocate the delegation to a personality of maximum trust.

A trust built in the two and a half years of work at Palazzo Chigi di Conte with his diplomatic adviser.

And it is in the M5S-Lega government that Benassi asserts his pro-European and Merkelian curriculum.

Strengthened by his experience as an Italian ambassador in Berlin, Benassi is the first link between the premier of a government (the yellow-green one) certainly not well seen in Brussels and the German chancellor.

And from then on the partnership with Conte never waned.

A partnership also made up of a very close collaboration cultivated in these thirty months, but certainly not of political ties.

The link between the now former diplomatic adviser of Palazzo Chigi and the M5S is almost non-existent, in fact.

And the career of Benassi, 62, a Roman of origin and a Roma player of football faith, has been all in diplomacy.

Before being ambassador to Berlin (from 2014 to 2018) and serving as head of cabinet at the Farnesina, Benassi was ambassador to Tunis, from 2009 to 2013, or in the turbulent months of the Arab Spring.

His career began in the economic affairs department of the Farnesina, and then made stops in Cuba and Warsaw.

With Conte, on the other hand, it is in Brussels that Benassi tackles the most delicate dossiers, from that of immigration, to the maneuver - disliked by the hawks - in which citizenship income and a quota of 100 were launched.

It will now be up to him to lead one of the branches of the government that is most targeted by the opposition and Iv.

Starting with the case of the secret mission in Italy of the General Attorney of the Trump administration William Barr for the Russiagate case. 

Source: ansa

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