Rome, 29 April (LaPresse) – "Today we celebrate the 120th anniversary of the birth of a great Italian: Enrico Mattei. One of the architects of the economic miracle that transformed Italy into an industrial and manufacturing powerhouse in the post-war period, Mattei was among the first to recognise Africa’s immense potential and to lay the foundations for cooperation based on genuine, equal and mutually beneficial relations.” This was stated by the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of Enrico Mattei’s birth. “Enrico Mattei gave shape and substance to a vision of shared development and growth, ushering in a period of infrastructure investment on the African continent that continues to bear fruit today,” recalled the Prime Minister, emphasising that “the Government has chosen to embrace this ambitious approach and translate it into a cooperation strategy that is now recognised as an initiative of European and international scope.” “Mattei’s teachings are a daily source of inspiration for our commitment. ‘Ingenuity is seeing possibilities where others do not,’ he used to say. It is a lesson we will continue to treasure, working to mobilise the available energies of all those who intend to continue writing, together with us, a new chapter in relations with Africa,” concludes Meloni.
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