Ministers, top managers, representatives of institutions. Debates on the future of Italy and glasses of wine, with an invitation-only gala that continued into the evening. Parterre de roi at the party-event for the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Giornale yesterday at the Portrait hotel, a few steps from via Montenapoleone in Milan. Opening the dance are the director Alessandro Sallusti and Paolo Berlusconi, president and historic publisher of the newspaper, accompanied by his daughters Luna, Alessia and Nicole, in the front rows the editors Antonio and Giampaolo Angelucci.
The high offices of the State. Guest of honor was Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – who after the conversation on stage with Sallusti spoke with Vittorio Feltri and Melania Rizzoli, regional councilor and on the board of directors of the newspaper -, the deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani, the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, the ministers Matteo Piantedosi and Daniela Santanchè. There is the governor of Lombardy Attilio Fontana who is also celebrating the green light for the bill on differentiated autonomy (“we will run even faster”). The mayor of Milan Beppe Sala is absent and puts his foot down because Meloni has not yet visited him at Palazzo Marino. “I’m a regular in Milan,” the prime minister said with a smile, without referring to Sala. Among the politicians Letizia Moratti in total white, fresh from being elected in Europe on the Forza Italia list, the senator Licia Ronzulli and the FI deputy Cristina Rossello, the president of Azione Mara Carfagna, the mayor of Venice Luigi Brugnaro. There is “the man who whispers to the powerful” and former journalist Luigi Bisignani.
The world of economics and institutions. A long list that goes from the executive vice president of Pirelli Marco Tronchetti Provera to the owner of Moncler Remo Ruffini, the president of Assolombarda Alessandro Spada, the CEO and strongman of Confcommercio Milano Marco Barbieri, the CEO of Fincantieri Pierroberto Folgiero, the CEO of Invitalia Bernardo Mattarella, Ernesto Mauri, president of the Teatro Manzoni and on the board of directors of the Giornale, the president of Enel and Milan Paolo Scaroni (who does not reveal the project coming from Webuild for the restyling of San Siro). Listening to the conversation between Meloni and Sallusti on the stage set up in the garden were the CEO of A2a Renato Mazzoncini, the president of Milano Serravalle Beniamino Lo Presti, the president of Dompè farmaceutici Sergio Dompè, the CEO of Acea Fabrizio Palermo, Silvano and Elena Boroli, among the first investors of the Giornale, the CEO of Confindustria Cisambiente Lucia Leonessi.
In no particular order, for the world of sport the president of CONI and the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Foundation Giovanni Malagò, the philosopher and writer Stefano Zecchi, the former minister and now president of the San Donato Group and Astm Angelino Alfano, the ambassador and president of Mundys spa Giampiero Massolo, the number one of Aci Milano Geronimo La Russa. From TV, Federica Panicucci.
Many directors and journalists from other newspapers attended the party, some with a career at the newspaper behind them. The directors Maurizio Belpietro (now at La Verità) and Augusto Minzolini, Gianluigi Nuzzi, Gianmarco Chiocci now at the helm of Tg1, the director of SkyTg24 Giuseppe De Bellis.
Present were the director of Libero Mario Sechi and editorial Daniele Capezzone, of Chi Massimo Borgnis and of Il Tempo Tommaso Cerno, Paolo Del Debbio. And many other friends to toast the – still long – journey of the Giornale.
