Milan’s greatest airport will probably be renamed to honor the late prime minister, the federal government has introduced
Italy is about to rename Milan Malpensa Airport after the nation’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has introduced.
Berlusconi, who was born within the nation’s monetary capital, died final yr aged 86. He led 4 governments on the helm of the Forza Italia occasion that he based in 1994.
“Excellent news: Milan Malpensa Airport will probably be named after Silvio Berlusconi,” Salvini, who additionally serves because the nation’s minister for infrastructure and transport, posted on X (previously Twitter) on Friday, together with a photograph of the late politician and Malpensa airport.
He stated the board of administrators of the nation’s Nationwide Civil Aviation Authority ENAC accepted a request filed a yr in the past by officers from the Lombardy area the place the airport relies.
Una bella notizia: l’aeroporto di Milano Malpensa sarà intitolato a Silvio Berlusconi.Proprio oggi il consiglio di amministrazione dell’Enac (Ente nazionale per l’aviazione civile) ha approvato la richiesta fatta da Regione Lombardia un anno fa.La decisione finale spetta al… pic.twitter.com/MoDa2Mv3dT
— Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) July 5, 2024
“The ultimate determination rests with the transport minister, and I’m able to put the signature, with pleasure and emotion, within the reminiscence of my pal Silvio, a terrific entrepreneur, a terrific Milanese and a terrific Italian,” Salvini concluded. “He’s at all times with us.”
The Deputy prime minister hasn’t revealed when the airport, which handles 22 million passengers yearly, will formally be renamed.
Berlusconi, who as soon as described himself because the “Jesus Christ of politics” and in contrast himself to Napoleon Bonaparte, went down in historical past as a controversial political determine who was hardly ever out of the headlines, even after he retired from politics.
A outstanding media tycoon, Berlusconi based the Mediaset tv group and owned AC Milan soccer membership between 1986 and 2017.
The billionaire confronted prison trials 30 instances throughout his political and enterprise profession for alleged offenses starting from abuse of workplace, defamation, and hyperlinks to the mafia. However just one case caught – a 2012 conviction for tax evasion in a deal involving tv rights.
The politician was barred from holding public workplace in 2013 after being sentenced to 4 years in jail for tax fraud. The ban was lifted in 2018, and he grew to become a member of the European Parliament a yr later.
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