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Around Varese and its political choices

Civic? Ah...beautiful. It seems that none of the candidates in the upcoming municipal elections wants to be one centimeter less "civic" than the other. A festival of "civicittà".

The widespread disaffection with the party field has evidently fed and feeds this phenomenon. However, it is dangerous to accept everything uncritically sense doing the classic "lump."

The same speech to be made critically towards the parties, not all equally involved in the management of power. The question should be clear about local authorities, municipalities, provinces, regions where responsibility can not be absolutely charged in the same way among those who constitute the majority that administers and those sitting in opposition. It is a concept that I would reiterate to the experience gained in the Varese Municipal Council in 23 years as a councilor elected in the then Communist Party files. I voted in favor of hundreds of resolutions for work, services, taxes that seemed advantageous to the city, although sometimes be improved and improved on many occasions thanks to the opponents. I never voted a draft master plan, nor a budget of annual or multi-year forecast. Surely it must mean something.

To be even more clear and explicit. They are remembering varesine Mayors and Councils of the past. Well from 1951 to 1956 he was a "Bulgarian" to dominate the majority of Varese Town Council: 26 councilors elected from DC on the 40 whole assembly. They allowed two historical atrocities: the closure of the tramway, funicular to Sacro Monte and Campo dei Fiori and the demolition of the Teatro Sociale. All equally responsible?

The discourse on civic organizations should be explained and evaluated. For a long time the phenomenon has been restricted to small mountain or rural communities. The doctor, the teacher, the small business of the country took charge of gathering around him friends, acquaintances and sometimes much of the family with the intention of holding the most of their municipality. Programs but not bombastic show of good will, openness towards others, honesty and selflessness. All qualities that almost always sopperivano to technical and administrative preparation limits. The laws should have thought a good town clerk. Important was the direct knowledge of who you wanted to send to the Mayor or the City Council.

In medium and large municipalities other music. They were performed by the parties to present their lists those who believed the administration better prepared. Often, professionals, employees and workers emerged from the business world. People already proven in previous public works and outstanding for the passion shown towards the social problems of the community. In short, the parties were guarantors before the electorate, the excellence of the candidates presented. Frequently they had also taken care of the technical and administrative preparation through specific training courses.

Now the crisis of representation party has reassessed the voter / candidate's personal relationship by giving more responsibility to the citizen voter choices directly, without intermediaries. Here opened a boundless field to "good citizenship". All positive? The explosion of the candidates for mayor and lists to support them force us to reflect. Here too it would be wrong to make the lump. Make an uncritical glorification only seeing a very positive aspect of the direct participation of citizens in public affairs and failing to mention the limitations and pitfalls already in place in the shadow of good citizenship.

We see in the concrete case of Varese. A case of school. Among the sixteen lists at least a dozen states its reason for being in the distance from political parties. Emerges of all, the good will of exhibitionism to do good by unique characters market. Few or no references to past civic commitments at the street level or neighborhood to support even small battles in favor of the place. Suddenly, the discovery of the cause Municipal: surprising.

The only exception Varese 2.0 agronomist Daniele Zanzi that can boast at least three years of civic commitments. Opposition to parking in the Villa Augusta parks Giubiano or Villa Mylius, the legendary fight against bunkers parking lot of the First Chapel also passing by the rescue of dozens of non-native pines of the Formal Garden Estense. Lotte civic brought forward successfully through an appreciable capacity for initiative as to achieve a broad popular mobilization.

Everything else appears as a civic responsibility more proclaimed that practiced. A good citizenship under whose umbrella would seek salvation many who have gone bankrupt.

Here is the case of evaluating the party's attitude towards the new phenomenon. The Democratic Party has put his own man mayoral candidate of a center-left coalition, with a lot of non-hidden card in his pocket party. It is open to civil society by rewarding movementism, recognizing the value of true public spirit represented by Varese 2.0 with which it is compared to the primary. The League and the remnants of Varese Forza Italy are not even able to find a candidate for mayor in their ranks. Which is why resorted to a candidate defined "external" civic and not "succubus of parties." We joke? To respect the person of Paul Orrigoni will not write that it will be a hostage in the hands of the League and Forza Italy who misrule until now, but it will be affected by them. Constantly breathing down his neck spiratogli by Maroni and Salvini.

However difficult for the voter to extricate in judgments between the various lists which also includes personalities who have previously shared part of the administrative political path of the League and Forza Italy, now happily sided with those who want to turn the page definitely.

Today, no ifs, ands or buts, the watershed must be the judgment on nearly 25 years of municipal government in the League traction. We must answer the question: in Varese you live better or worse before the era of the League Northern League? An era in which all the spaces of power to the City, the Province, the Region were available to such political forces. If we recognize that we want to turn back Varese is consistently very page, breaking the continuity of a negative past?

There is no middle ground: either one supports the new, the will to work seriously for change in the city, or you give a positive rating to the Juntas Fumagalli and Fontana, and it confirms the past content with the usual promises. With attention to a bogus "civismo".

originally written by: rmfonline.it

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Forever Young

The Saudis arrive in the former Falck steel mills with an investment of half a billion euro. The brothers Abdulaziz, Salman and Abdul Majeed Fawaz focused on achieving a mega center for trade and an amusement park in the T5 Hall, there where in the seventies was the Tagliaferri blast furnace that produced tons of iron every day. We are in the north east (towards Monza), which housed the huge facility of the plant Concordia, a candidate to become a World Heritage Site. The jobs provided are three thousand. Are the numbers of the development of the company Fawaz plan Riyadh that, as anticipated yesterday by Corriere, enters the urban redevelopment of the former Falck steel mills, an operation of 2.6 billion euro, the most ambitious in Europe. Overall, the area is one million 400 thousand square meters. For their project the three Saudi brothers will buy land for 140 thousand square meters. Will be built around what was expected: the City of Health that will join the Institute of tumors and neurological Besta, green areas for 650,000 square meters, seven schools and kindergartens and homes.

The Fawaz become partners of shareholders of MilanoSesto: the property developer Davide Bizzi and Source group headed by Valter Mainetti. The deal will be closed in days. There are already binding agreements, all kept under strict secrecy, that armored investment. So under the steel structures that will remain intact to remember the times that were, they appear shops with popular brands, recreational activities and cinema. No old design mall, but a shopping spree that winds through open spaces connected to the park. Not only: the intention is to open KidZania, a mini city for children, where children can find everything you need in a real city (shops, offices, fire station, post office, gas station, places police, banks, restaurants, all in miniature) to learn playing. The estimated time for the realization of the project is within five years, the same dateline that today is fixed for Health City.

The group Fawaz Alhokair is homonymous dynasty of entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia has the keys of the 16 major commercial centers of the Kingdom under the banner Arabian centers, but also of many shopping malls in the United States (a total of 2,100 stores), chain Fas hotels and the construction company Making. The company is listed on the Stock Exchange of Riyadh, with 13,000 employees and presence in 17 countries. The first step of their investment will be the purchase of land, followed by the construction of buildings and the direct management of the spaces: the three brothers work turnkey and investors in the long run because they want to stay on the area to make the project a springboard to the rest of Europe.

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A nightmare called Whirlpool

Berlusconi in the 70s in a nanosecond would solve the problem of the gap left by managers and employees of Whirlpool, former Ignis, when they will move to the outskirts of Milan. Like a hawk, it would be sealed on concrete snake that runs parallel to the road to pieces and ricavandovi luxury villas overlooking the lake, Campo dei Fiori and Monte Rosa. The most beautiful balcony of Lombardy. Assumed the name: Comerio 2. It would leave intact a single corner: the panoramic office belonged to Giovanni Borghi, uncle of his friend Fedele Confalonieri. The historic desk, recovered in some cellar, King Silvio would have exposed the Holy Grail, that won the European Cup champions from Milan. But Berlusca deposed the scepter, there is no longer Craxi with Milan to drink, is also moving time for Milan, before whose headquarters stationed in the Chinese buyers limousine. End of the film. It remains the reality, pregnant of unknowns.

Almost a month after the announcement of the great American retreat, no one knows how pincer grasp the hot potato. And it would be strange that before the hob was left alone, the mayor of Comerio, still in shock over the leak into the coffers of his town hall orphan of the most wealthy taxpayers. It will not be so: inaugurating days ago some departments of the new hospital in Varese, Roberto Maroni has said that the responsibility of the business is at least on his shoulders. The governor looks for an idea and replacement with moonlights current task is not easy. In words everyone is interested in the 23 thousand square meters covered, the hundreds of offices, restaurants, Olympic swimming pool, tennis courts, basketball, soccer, gyms that Mister Ignis built generously inventing mediated industrial communication from the sport. At his court there were laborers and gladiators. The factory and the circus. The bread and recreation.

Except that, moving from talk to action, they materialize doubts and uncertainties. First scenario: make a stew of the area, if you can find someone willing to buy it and then sell or rent space to enterprises, including cooperatives. The mayor of Comerio tried it: "The property" Whirlpool gifts. But the latitudes of Michigan believe the price lists of Wall Street, not the Santa Claus pannier. Second scenario: find a single investor who has it in mind to achieve something truly great. Examples: a theme park (hard), a mega mall (no thanks), the headquarters of a company willing to brave the current leaving the metropolitan area and moving in the province (unlikely). Maroni is aware of everything. And when he jumps out of the hypothesis, in this case plausible in Italy s'avvista no tripe for cats, to focus on research. 

We are in an area that has lost one by one making centers related to its domains, but retains a dense fabric of productive centers. Transforming the former command of Whirlpool in the laboratory of new technologies at the service, networking, hence, with Politenico of Milan, as well as with universities and Varese Castellanza and with the International Centre in Ispra, it is an outlet , at least to verify. Maroni not do it alone, but he is sitting at a table with a stone guest indispensable: the Whirlpool. World number two US multinational is Marc Bitzer, a German firm that Comerio has flown for a long time the European business. In this area he is very attached: he knows and loves.

However, a first exploratory contact, then operating, between the governor and the super manager seems the only move that, at the time, can avoid stalling. Walls crumbling, rotting doors, a beautiful swimming pool of villages attacked by mosses and algae, so here is your destiny to save in a symbolic place, a kind of monument, dear to the memory of all.

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