Repubblica reports that the share-holder meeting for Rai has ended with Petroni being removed and replaced with Fabiano Fabiani. Il Sole 24 Ore has better coverage on Fabiani’s background:
CEO of Acea spa, municipal electricity company in Rome;
board member for Suez Environment;
former director-general of IRI
former MD of Cinecittà, Finmeccanica;
CBC journalist runs for parliament.
France Télévisions asks for more money.
Rome court to decide tomorrow on the Petroni case.
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.
The first of these - the one currently in use - is hidden away […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Fighting over Rai’s future direction has increased in tempo over the past few days. There are two levels: first, the administrative council, where the Treasury’s representative, Angelo Maria Petroni, has been subject to some pressure to resign. Il Giornale talks of ‘the operation to take-over Rai’, and quotes Sandro Curzi, left-wing member of the Council. […]
For some weeks now, Rai Administrative Councillor Angelo Maria Petroni, one of the right-wing members of the Administrative Council, has been threatening to resign. Petroni, along with Chairman Claudio Petruccioli, was nominated by the Italian Treasury in 2005 under the centre-right government, and confirmed by the parliamentary committee which supervises Rai.
Petroni’s resignation threat causes a […]
