Alitalia: accelerates, dossier on Draghi table

The government pushes on the accelerator pedal to try to quickly find a solution for Alitalia. The dossier is on the table of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who in the afternoon met the ministers involved at Palazzo Chigi to take stock of an increasingly poised dispute, with the liquidity almost running out of the old company and the new airline from get off the ground as soon as possible so as not to miss the summer season. The meeting at Palazzo Chigi, which was attended in addition to the prime minister by the ministers involved in the game (economic development Giancarlo Giorgetti, sustainable infrastructure and mobility Enrico Giovannini, the economy Danierle Franco and Labor Andrea Orlando), was interlocutory, but certainly a signal of the will to give a push to close the game as soon as possible.The government must find the solution that guarantees the economic discontinuity requested several times by the EU in order to be able to give the green light to the birth of Ita. The negotiation is difficult and in recent days Brussels has made it clear that it is still awaiting many answers from the government on Alitalia. There are several issues to be solved, ranging from the company perimeter, to the reduction of assets, personnel and slots. Another stumbling block is that of the brand on which, however, the government would seem willing not to give up: "The government considers the brand as an important element of the negotiation," Giovannini said in recent days. One of the hypotheses on which we had reasoned was that of the direct transfer of the assets from the old company to the new company, but among the possible plans B there is also the idea of ​​renting the assets.