"I'm a grandfather. And I enjoy the grandparents' right to be able to choose what to do. This is also why I made it clear that I'm not interested in political or institutional positions, either in Italy or abroad".
Thus the former premier Mario Draghi, in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
"In February 2021 - he says - the situation was very difficult. However, Italy has shown that it knows how to do it. This year we will grow by almost 4%, more than France and Germany, after seven consecutive quarters of growth during my government ".
Now "inflation has put central banks in front of a challenge. Preserving price stability is essential".
During his government "we made many difficult decisions: I am thinking of the green pass and the vaccination obligation.
I am pleased to see today that the Constitutional Court fully agrees.
Equally difficult was choosing to reopen schools in April.
Finally, immediate and convinced support for Ukraine". "The prospects for peace - Draghi continues - are difficult even if much has changed in the last period.
But it is only Putin who can put an end to these massacres.
We supported Ukraine immediately, with conviction.
I was aware of the strong past ties between Italy and Moscow, but we could not remain unmoved.
In Russia they probably counted on our ambiguity, which instead didn't exist". Compared to Meloni "it's not for me to judge the government, especially not after such a short time.
Meloni proved to be an able leader and had a strong electoral mandate.
We must be careful not to create a new negative international climate towards Italy". The prime minister, he is pointed out, says that he has left her with a lot of things to do on the Pnrr: "We have respected all the objectives of the first two semesters.
This is the only indicator on which the disbursement of funds depends, which in fact took place on time.
I would have liked to complete the work we had been carrying out.
The remaining objectives would certainly have been achieved before the end of this semester.
I believe the current government is equally committed, and I have no reason to doubt that it will achieve all the objectives of the third installment."
The remaining objectives would certainly have been achieved before the end of this semester.
I believe the current government is equally committed, and I have no reason to doubt that it will achieve all the objectives of the third installment."
The remaining objectives would certainly have been achieved before the end of this semester.
I believe the current government is equally committed, and I have no reason to doubt that it will achieve all the objectives of the third installment."
"If I look at the challenges met and won in just twenty months of government, one has to smile at those who said I wanted to leave, scared of the hypothetical abyss of a recession that has not been reflected in the data to date".
Thus the former premier Mario Draghi in the interview with Corriere della Sera.
"After a lifetime, I had been called to do a job that was new to me - he added - and I did it to the best of my ability. I would therefore have gladly stayed to complete the job, if I had been allowed".
The former head of the ECB then retraces the phases that led to the fall of his executive in the Corriere: "The government - he says - was based on the consensus of a vast coalition, which had decided to set aside its differences to allow the Italy to overcome a period of emergency. I therefore did not have my own party or my parliamentary base. At a certain point, the willingness of the parties to find compromises failed, also due to the approaching natural expiry of the legislature. months - continues Draghi - the majority had fallen apart and several parties were dissociating themselves from decisions already taken in Parliament or in the CDM".
Some examples: "The M5 was increasingly opposed to military support for Ukraine,
despite having initially supported this position in Parliament and despite this being the line agreed with our allies at the European level, the G7 and NATO.
FI and Lega were against aspects of some important reforms - taxation and competition - which had been given the go-ahead in the CDM.
The League and M5s also clamored for a budget variance". Draghi then recalls the most complicated moment, that of the days between the decision of the M5s not to vote on the confidence in the Aid decree and the debate in the Senate: "The positions of the parties were now irreconcilable.
The center-right was willing to go ahead as long as the 5s ministers left the government and were replaced by their representatives.
However, the Democratic Party was unwilling to be part of what was to become in effect a centre-right government.