Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Triton, gli sbarchi e l'Italia

Qualche giorno fa ha fatto parecchio scalpore una intervista ad Emma Bonino, in cui l'ex ministro degli esteri italiano pare abbia affermato che "Siamo stati noi a chiedere che gli sbarchi avvenissero tutti in Italia, anche violando Dublino", ed anche "E nel 2014-2016 che il coordinatore fosse a Roma, alla Guardia Costiera e che gli sbarchi avvenissero tutti quanti in Italia, lo abbiamo chiesto noi, l’accordo l’abbiamo fatto noi, violando di fatto Dublino". La signora Bonino usa "noi", ma probabilmente per senso dello stato, perché il ministro degli esteri nel 2014 era un altro.
L'intervista ha causato molte reazioni. Dai commenti giunti da più parti, pare chiaro che fossero veramente in tanti, sia tra i comuni cittadini che nella classe politica, coloro i quali non avessero idea che una delle decisioni operative fosse proprio quella di scegliere i porti italiani per gli sbarchi.
Eppure sarebbe bastato chiedere a Frontex. E qualcuno lo ha fatto per noi. Non oggi o qualche giorno fa, ma già nell'Aprile del 2015 il Sig. Nicolai Christoffersen chiese a Frontex i piani operativi dell'operazione Triton, per quanto riguardava il 2014, e da Frontex gli rispose la Sig.ra Berenika Wyrzykowska, pubblicando tre documenti, il piano operativo, il manuale e gli allegati.
I documenti, come comprensibile, sono pieni di omissis, ma sul ruolo dell'Italia negli sbarchi non ci sono omissis, è tutto leggibile, pubblicamente, dal Maggio del 2015, Frontex non ha nemmeno pensato che queste informazioni potessero in alcun modo essere sensibili.
Ed hanno ragione, non sono informazioni sensibili dal punto di vista operativo. Ma potrebbero esserlo dal punto di vista politico.
Chiunque abbia una confidenza con l'Inglese può leggere da se i tre documenti, qui un paio di assaggi, il primo sugli sbarchi:
Triton 2014 Annex 19-20
Il secondo sulle intercettazioni:
Triton 2014 Annex 13-14
Non credo ci sia molto altro da aggiungere.

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Greece vs Magna Graecia Under 25 unemployment 1999-2014

Greece had to do quite a catch up to reach the peaks of under 25 unemployment more usual in Magna Graecia. Luckily for the Greeks, in 2014 Campania, Sicily, Apulia and above all Calabria performed worst, truer to their sad tradition:

Greece vs Magna Graecia  Under 25 unemployment 1999-2014
The Eurostat data used in the diagram above can be found in the "Unemployment rates by sex, age and NUTS 2 regions (%)" dataset (lfst_r_lfu3rt).

Greece vs Magna Graecia economic inactivity rates 1999-2014

Compared with the poorer third of Italy, Greece wouldn't appear to have such a big inactivity issue. Actually, the inactivity rate for the over 15 under 64 population appears to have slightly decreased in recent years:
Greece vs Magna Graecia Economic inactivity rates 1999-2014
The Eurostat data used in the diagram above can be found in the "Economic activity rates by sex, age and NUTS 2 regions (%)" dataset (lfst_r_lfp2actrt).

Monday, 29 June 2015

Greece vs Magna Graecia GDP PPS 2000-2013

If Greece will default on its public debt in the next weeks, and the Italian government will ask its Southern states to contribute with more cuts and new taxes to the attempt to cover the gargantuan €65 billion Euros black hole that default may potentially leave on its public accounts, this will be a textbook case of stealing from the poor after giving to the rich:

Greece vs Magna Graecia GDP PPS 2000 - 2013

Note: to compile the diagram above I had to combine the Eurostat "Regional gross domestic product by NUTS 2 regions", a series ending in 2011, with the more recent Istat "Prodotto interno lordo lato produzione", which was published after the introduction of ESA 2010. This involved some fancy transformation including applying the Eurostat purchasing power parities indices on the last couple of years myself. Chances there are that when in a couple of years Eurostat will provide us with an ESA 2010 updated "Regional gross domestic product by NUTS 2 regions" series, I'll have to review the diagram above, but we should not expect its core message to change.

P.S.: the title of the diagram and of the article is a simplification: Sardinia, like Abruzzi or Molise, was never considered part of Magna Graecia, but I did add one and left out the other two. Also, I didn't forget Basilicata, which instead was quite central to the concept of Magna Graecia, but the diagram was already pretty complex, so I decided to leave it out. Basilicata would have fared somewhere half way between Sardinia and Sicily.

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Sicilia per popolazione comunale-CTMEPA

Sicilia per popolazione comunale, evidenziati i comuni di Catania, Messina e Palermo

Sunday, 2 August 2009

A comment on unblocked Sicilian money

A comment to the Boastful Silvio Berlusconi buys off his party rebels article on the Guardian:

One of the key words on the article, is to unblock.

Also in Italian media, very little is made of the fact that this €4bn that the PM is allegedly throwing to Sicily, were to begin with already allotted to Sicily on the government balancy sheet.

Moreover, even more little is made of the fact that the total amount of money in that specific government account, €18bn, was fully pledged to areas south of Rome, but that the Italian version of the chancellor of the exchequer had instead used it as a sort of ATM, to get money to spend and invest in the north of the country.

The true scandal is not that Mr. Berlusconi is allegedly throwing money to Sicily, far from it, but that it was up to members and allies of Mr. Berlusconi's government, Mr. Micciché and Mr. Lombardo, to force the government to unblock the Sicilian money.

Where was the opposition? How anyone is supposing to steer the Sicilian electorate away from Mr. Berlusconi, if they aren't able even to clamour when the government is siphoning away even the few resources it still pledges to the island?