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The 'Mattei Plan' revealed:5.5 billion euros on the table and the feeling of a missed opportunity Update January 31, 2024: During the Italy-Africa summit, the first international appointment of the Italian presidency of the G7, the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, he revealed the so-called Mattei Plan, or at least he talked about figures and mentioned possible initiatives in Africa.In front of representatives of 46 countries (including heads of state and government) and 25 multilateral bodies, gathered in the Senate, Meloni he announced the forecast of "5.5 billion euros between credits, gift operations and guarantees:approximately 3 billion from the Italian climate fund and 2.5 billion and a half from the development cooperation fund".There are already pilot projects, from Morocco to Kenya, from Algeria to Mozambique, from Egypt to Ethiopia with the involvement of 12 investee companies (from Eni to Leonardo) in five areas of intervention:vocational education and training, health, water...

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In the language of today's politics there is an expression that is indicative of a certain sloppiness, and it is the "vocation of the territories".It is a captivating formula that is repeated by representatives of all political colors and latitudes.Easy to grasp (and wear), the vocation of the territories is to be understood in the religious sense, as something immutable and to be adhered to uncritically.But which in reality becomes the pass to try to impose one's own vision of the world.Except that the territories, the ways in which we imagine them and the ways in which we transform them, they are the result of certain choices, daughters in turn of mediations and conflicts - even abandonment is a choice, as demonstrated for example by the case of Abruzzo and inland areas.In this sense, the Italy that we are trying to outline in this eternal post-pandemic and post-conflict present is a paradi...