'padoa schioppa' Category
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Aug242007
How many Italian politicians does it take to fire a broadcaster?
The Gasparri law which currently regulates the Italian media landscape is a bad law in very many ways. Not least of these is the fact that it sets out two different ways of appointing and removing members to the Board of Rai.
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Aug102007
He didn’t turn up, so we can’t fire him
The Corriere reports that the Rai board meeting which was scheduled for the 8th of August did not go ahead because of a failure to reach quorum. The meeting had been requested by the Treasury Minister, Padoa-Schioppa, who wants to fire the Treasury representative on the board, Angelo Maria Petroni. But, according to Art. 2388 [...]
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Aug032007
Appointments, dismissals, funding
The House of Lords Select Committee on Communications today released a report on the appointment of the BBC Chairman, written in the well-tempered amber prose typical of such committees. Some recommendations I share: if the government adds a member to the short-list it is given, it should be publicly justified. Some recommendations I disagree with. [...]
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May162007
Rai round-up
On Saturday, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Finance Minister, writes to Rai saying that he no longer has confidence in Angelo Maria Petroni, the Finance Ministry’s representative on the Rai board. Petroni was nominated by Padoa-Schioppa’s right-wing predecessor. Petroni claims that the move is purely political, and has no legal foundation. Petroni is partly right: the move has [...]
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Nov012006
Worst. Minister. Ever
One can tell something about Italian journalism by the way in which Italian newspapers and television news bulletins treat editorials from the Financial Times and the Economist, two papers with deserved reputations for straight-talking. Yet when these editorials reach Italy, they quickly become sensationalized. And so, when the Financial Times published on its website a [...]