Rome. The government of Giorgia Meloni praises extraordinary stability. He has firmly attached to power for three years. The only reshuffle to which the president of the Italian Council was subject to a bad grace concerns the Ministry of Culture (MIC). Just a year ago, she knew Gennaro Sangiuliano, known for her blunders and her narcissism, was dryly dismissed. They also enjoyed her adultery affair with an influencer engaging in blackmail and barely veiled threats in the press to snatch a post within the MIC. She only obtained the dismissal of her lover, referred to her original journalist career. The RAI correspondent position in Paris represents a meager lot of consolation for the one who dreamed of “End an end to the cultural hegemony of the left”.
It is the mission of his successor and former colleague the journalist Alessandro Giuli. If the current tenant of the Palais of the Roman college is much more sober than his predecessor, he did not fail to engage in an autocelebration exercise in a video compiling the “best moments” from his swearing in. Or almost four minutes of grandiloquent images showing him dressed in his dandy costume in inspired or meditative poses during the reception of foreign heads of state or official inaugurations, images accompanied by rock music.
“Relaunch the art market”
Beyond the irony aroused on social networks and opposition criticisms, it is already possible to draw a first assessment of the action of Alessandro Giuli. “It is first of all an important change in style, notes Alberto Mattioli, author of Destra Maladreta (“The clumsy right”, ed. Chiareleterre, 2024, not translated), a work which deals with the cultural policy of the Meloni government. (Alessandro Giuli) is less naive and puffer than Gennaro Sangiuliano and much more cultivated. When he arrived, he showed a more conciliatory and less vindictive spirit with the left. »» Alessandro Giuli thus regularly enames his speech of references to Antonio Gramsci, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party. In the fall of 2024, he launched the “Olivetti Plan”, named after a socializing philanthrope entrepreneur. 34 million euros are allocated to support public libraries, especially in disadvantaged regions and outskirts. Another motive for pride for Alessandro Giuli, that of having made one of the main demands of the Transalpine Art market succeed. Since July 1, 2025, Italy has applied a reduced VAT rate of 5 % on the transfers and imports of works of art, collectibles and antiques, replacing the previous rate by 22 %. By beating the French rate of 5.5 % often taken as an example, the Minister provides “Relaunch the art market and support a sector faced with growing international competition”.
“Despite these economic announcements, however, there is still lack of strong ideas, deplores Alberto Mattioli. The conservative right was lamenting to have been ostracized from power, but it has nothing to offer now that it has it. No more than she has political staff up to the height to occupy important functions. The appointments were mediocre or modest. Giorgia Meloni had promised that “the time for cronyism and favoritism in favor of the left in the world of culture is finished”. She just replaced it with the right to hesitate. »»
A real cultural policy always remains on absent subscribers. “We have to go back to fascism so that the country knows one”, Considers Alberto Mattioli. The Mostra of Venice, the Triennials and Quadriennales, Cinecittà, the centro Sperimental di Cinematografia …, as many demonstrations or institutions that we owe to the Mussolinian regime. It was therefore not until 1975 that a Ministry of Culture was created in Italy. It has almost always been entrusted to unplanned personalities. »»
Without carrying out major reform projects, Alessandro Giuli, former editorialist with a sharp pen, withdrew what he does best: polemiquit. He thus embarked on a violent rant against tax credits granted to the audiovisual world. Money serving according to him to “Fantomial films since out of 459 projects funded between 2022 and 2023, 345 never came out indoors. A system of fraud and abuse which mainly promotes large productions and left -wing players. ” Enough to unite the world of cinema winds against the minister, castigated for his arrogance and his provocations. Latest, August 2, 2025. Italy was collected for the 45th anniversary of the Bologna Famen station attack by neofascists. Alessandro Giuli prefers to go to the Puglia to remember Hannibal’s victory in Cannes during the Second Punic War. “It’s an obvious withdrawal, Note Alberto Mattioli, He was conciliatory, he is an activist. »»
