Count Trump for a pact on Libya: "Italian-American common control booth"

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From duties to sovereignisms, what Trump will ask Conte

by FEDERICO RAMPINI

The proposal that will be submitted by Conte to the American Prime Minister, we learn, is Imagine a partnership between the two countries of the Mediterranean, giving life to a control room between the respective foreign and defense ministers. A bank that Conte considers crucial to better manage the issue of migrants and the fight against terrorism. But above all, it is useful to lead the transition to Libya, curbing French ambitions that point to the December vote in Tripoli. A request for collaboration at the highest levels of government that, in the earl's ambitions, must serve to reduce Italy's role as a privileged partner of the United States in Europe, to remove Rome from isolation in which she was driven out by populist euroscepticism executive. For this reason, Italy highlights Washington's support for organizing the conference on Libya that will be hosted by Italy, as announced by Conte.

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Italy-USA, explorers between farce and tragedy

by VITTORIO ZUCCONI

The final decision obviously belongs to Trump, as well as the definition of the technical details of the project. But it is clear that if the United States accepted, it would be a challenge for Italy to European partners. Conte proposes himself in the role of "facilitator" in the relations between the two sides of the Atlantic, as strong – he maintains – of the anti-establishment common nature. Indeed, the strategy of the Italian government aims above all to compete with the line of Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel and to challenge the two leaders who effectively isolated the Italian government. In exchange, Italy is ready to yield to US pressures on the creation of the faucet, realizing the pipeline that unites the Caspian Sea to Italy, and to continue its commitments on NATO and on the international missions.