Milan, 27 November (LaPresse) – "We put our organic growth strategy on hold last year because of the BPM operation. Now we have resumed it and we are optimistic about what we can do. This does not mean that if there were opportunities to do something strategic in Italy, we would not do it. We would do it, and one of the reasons for appealing to the Council of State is also to eliminate this uncertainty." These were the words of Andrea Orcel, CEO of UniCredit Group, heard in the Senate by the Commission of Inquiry into the banking and insurance system, regarding the appeal to the Council of State on the Golden Power exercised by the government in the context of the attempted acquisition of Banco BPM.