DE BENEDETTI AND ROMANO PRODI, OR: HOW TO MAKE A MOUNTAIN OF MONEY AT THE EXPENSES OF THE STATE

Article by Paolo Barnard. The complicity between Romano Prodi and Carlo De Benedetti began in July 1982, when Prodi was appointed president of IRI, the largest economic body in the state, in the house of his historian Carlo De Benedetti (owner of the Repubblica and Espresso group and of other 30 magazines / newspapers / weeklies / monthlies throughout Italy), [...]