NEW YORK. Business as usual. The super-billionaire interested in the political and existential fate of Italy is a fairy tale that ends where the money begins. The key to getting to the reasons that drove Giorgia Meloni asks to receive the Global Citizenship Award from Elon Musk’s handsat the Atlantic Council, Antonio Tajani offered it the day before yesterday when he arrived in New York: «I think it’s more of an entrepreneurial choice than a political one.».
And there is some truth in it if we then discover that yesterday The Prime Minister also met with the top management of Google and Microsoft. An interview which, from what has emerged, served to deepen the scenarios on Artificial Intelligence: development, market and dangers – for governments – of losing control of them, with the related need to find regulation. In the background there is the great battle between the big tech companies: a prairie that even space cowboy Musk is trying to conquer. A competition that directly affects political leadership. In January, at the start of Meloni’s G7 presidency, it was the turn of Microsoft inventor Bill Gates, who arrived in Rome for a meeting with the Prime Minister. While a year ago, Google had appreciated the Italian government’s distinctions on the Internet tax conceived by the EU.
In the last five years Brussels has sought to strengthen its control structures against disinformationwhich in a logic of absolute deregulation represents the true social capital of populism. It would be enough to ask Musk how he took the torpedoing by the EU Commission of Thierry Breton, the creator of the Digital Service Act, the archenemy with whom he has repeatedly duelled on the limits to impose on (pro-Trump) propaganda on X, and with whom in August he ended up exchanging letters and insults. The boundaries of the New Digital World are unknown and Meloni is called into question in her double role. As leader of the G7, he has put AI management at the top of the agenda. As a champion of the conservative right, she is the right supporter who could prove invaluable in conquering the fortress of severe rules erected by the EU.: laws that entail more responsibility for content, more guarantees and therefore – in case of non-compliance – more billion-dollar fines.
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This is the real thread that ties the inventor of Tesla, owner of X (formerly Twitter) and Space X to the sovereignists. Investments, on AI but not only. Also on electric mobility and space. The prime minister and the entrepreneur will discuss it again today in New York. It is a thread woven with the foresight of someone who exploits all the allies he has to make business fly. Scrolling through his interventions on social networks, rough, direct and certainly not accommodating, Musk seems to spend his time reading Italian news. He never misses a single piece of news, and he never fails to comment on events involving his right-wing friends. The last time was against the prosecutors who asked for Matteo Salvini’s conviction in the Open Arms NGO case. The fight against immigration is just one of the fronts on which this agreement between European ultraconservatives and South Africans is exaltedwho over the years has become a defense lawyer for the sovereignists and die-hard Donald Trump supporter. Resistance against woke culture, demographic challenge, environmental denialism, free speech and therefore high tolerance of fake news are the other chapters of the liaison with Meloni, Salvini, Viktor Orban and all the champions of the nationalist right.
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Musk’s courtship is constant. Invited on stage at Atreju, the annual meeting of the Brothers of Italy, Mr Tesla does not deny his reputation as an agitator on X. Now that he has embraced the Trumpian cause like a new Steve Bannon, a bit of a guru and a bit of a broker, He expects his new Italian friends to help him with business. Two weeks ago Bloomberg had reported some indiscretions. The government of Rome has approved a regulatory scheme that guarantees foreign space companies to operate in the country, and from which it expects to generate 7.3 billion euros of investments in the space sector from 2026. It is useless to add how involved the CEO of Space X may feel in these prospects, who the Italian digital market is also interested in the implementation of its Starlink satellites. In December 2023, right on the days of his speech at Atreju, Musk had sounded out the government, with the intention of understanding whether there was room for satellite connection services in the plans for the diffusion of ultra-broadband.going so far as to complain about Tim’s obstructionism. One that pushed the Minister of Enterprise Adolfo Urso to seek a conciliation between the two companies, while at another table he was negotiating with Musk’s men the possibility, never denied, of opening a Tesla plant in Italy. The mutual convenience between Musk and Meloni strengthens the alliance, while waiting to find out if Trump will return to the Oval Office. And, in this sense, who knows if today the prime minister will ask the entrepreneur if he will accept Salvini’s invitation to Pontida.
