"The "Made in Italy" Government Sells IP (Italiana Petroli) to Azerbaijan" di Carlo Coppola
Raffineria API di Falconara Marittima da Wikipedia There is a threshold in Italian public life beyond which a piece of news ceases to be news and becomes, simply, backdrop. Something that happens while one is looking elsewhere — and one looks elsewhere with great, collective, disciplined devotion. And so, with the discretion reserved for matters one would rather not explain too thoroughly, the refinery network and the IP/API distribution infrastructure — an energy asset that someone, in a moment of nostalgia, might still call "strategic" — has passed under the control of SOCAR , the state oil company of the Republic of Azerbaijan . Not an anonymous publicly traded corporation, not an investment fund hiding behind reassuring acronyms: a state-owned company, with everything that entails in terms of interests, directives, and political dependencies. A company that answers, ultimately, to a government. To that government. It is worth recalling, without indignation, tha...
