MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “Malpensa is a crossroads where Milan and Italy meet the world. It is a space of work and exchanges, of departures and returns, a bridge between countries, where every day you cancel the distances and cross the borders, What better name could have, such a bridge, if not that of Silvio Berlusconi? A man who has always sought dialogue with everyone, who has believed in human contacts, in the strength of ties and, above all, that has turned into reality impossible ideas. The awareness that the Milan-Malpensa Silvio Berlusconi Airport will welcome thousands of travelers from all over the world to fill me with pride and emotion. My father spent his life looking forward and far. I like to think that, from today, his name will welcome those coming from other countries and will accompany those taking off to new destinations.” This was expressed in a well-known Marina Berlusconi, president of Fininvest and daughter of Silvio Berlusconi, on the occasion of the initiation to the father Silvio Berlusconi of Milan-Malpensa airport.
PAOLO BERLUSCONI “SILVIO NON C’È PIÙ MA È PIÙ VIVO CHE MAI
“On behalf of my family, my grandchildren, I thank you very much for this prestigious recognition and meaning. Recognition that forever binds the name of Silvio Berlusconi to his beloved city of Milan”. Paolo Berlusconi said this during the ceremony of intitulation of Milan-Malpensa airport to his brother Silvio. “Our homeland is Italy, sunny to say, but our future is Europe. And then what better contribution to the memory of Silvio than to give his name to the door of access to Europe and to the world that this aeropore represents – added Berlusconi -. Until the last he spent all his energies and commitment for the same reason why in 1994 he decided to go into the field, the love for his country”. ‘Italy is the country I love’, the country of its roots, hopes and sunny horizons say – recalls Paolo Berlusconi citing the words of his brother-. “Today Silvio is gone but he is more alive than ever. He lives in his urbanization, sports, publishing and television companies, political inheritance, social, memories and hearts. Today it is also present here in this important Milan airport that wanted to intitle Silvio Berlusconi”.
TAJANI “BERLUSCONI STATISTA CHE HA FATTO LA STORIA”
“The General Assembly of the United Nations is of course an irrelevant institutional duty and only for this I do not in time to participate in a ceremony that excites me and fills me with pride.” Antonio Tajani said this in the video message sent on the occasion of the initiation of the Milan-Malpensa airport to Silvio Berlusconi. “President Berlusconi is one of the statesmen who have made the history of our country in the political confrontation, but he was also one of the most famous Italians in the world and in the rest he has devoted a lot of his time, his efforts and his passion to international politics – Tajani emphasized. Today the role of foreign minister, to which he himself proposed me at the birth of this government. I feel like I’m somehow continuing his work. And for me this is a great honor, a foreign policy of which peace, Europe and the Atlantic Alliance have always been the foundations. For this reason I consider very significant a very happy choice that is dedicated to him at Malpensa airport, one of Italy’s doors on the world and at the same time a place of access to his city, to his region”.
“Berlusconi – Tajani continues – was deeply lumbar, he truly embodied the spirit of this region, made of entrepreneurial spirit, of great capacity for work, of vision of the future, but also of solidarity, of weak attentions, of concrete commitment so that, as he loved to say, no one would remain behind.” “The void that Silvio Berlusconi left in our hearts, but also in Italian politics, is an undeniable void – says Tajani again – .Ed is for me a huge responsibility, after being a step behind him for decades, having inherited its political responsibility leading the movement he founded. Silvio Berlusconi, however, was not only a political leader.” “It was a great builder, an entrepreneur of communication, a man of sport and many other things – the vicepremier concludes – the common trait in every area was to be an extraordinary innovator, capable of challenges that others considered impossible, and to have won them every time obtaining extraordinary results. It was in building cities ahead of time, attention to green, pedestrians, children and the elderly. It was introducing in Italy television pluralism and creating what is also today, in television and publishing, the largest Italian cultural company. He was making Milan the strongest team in the world in his time. It was changing in a few months the course of Italian politics. Milan and Lombardy are in Italy a place of innovation par excellence, the region perhaps closer to that Europe than for President Berlusconi was a polar star. It is beautiful, it has its great meaning, that its land remembers it so. Finding his name for every traveler coming and leaving from Malpensa is not only an invitation to remember the past, it is an invitation to continue to build the future as he knew to do, with optimism, keeping the sun in his pocket”.
LA RUSSA “FIGURA BERLUSCONI INTERPRETA SENSO DI VOLARE ALTO”
“I am happy to be able to speak on behalf of Parliament, on behalf of the Senate and in this case as without merit, as a high office present to celebrate, celebrate the choice of Silvio Berlusconi as a figure able to interpret the sense of a city, of a region, of a nation that wants to fly high.” This was said by the President of the Senate Ignazio LaRussia in the margin of the initiation to Silvio Berlusconi of the Milan-Malpensa airport. “I have never had the party card of Silvio Berlusconi, even when he was a party, he was a unique government, not a single party, the PdL, but who knows me and who has been near more than me to Silvio Berlusconi, I think of Ronzulli, I think of Stefania Craxi, I think of the family, I think of the Milan President, know how much affection I have had for Silvio Berlusconi”. “I had the honor – says Russian – to have reciprocated this affection, always, constantly. He never made the party difference prevail in human relations, even with political opponents, not only with whom he was in his coalition.
But his way of dealing with those who did however politics or entrepreneurship and was not on his side, but he always tended his hand, he never tried to divide, he always tried to unite, of course, conscious that he was better than others, he knew it and was almost always, true, and then this makes me wonder a little more, the natural Matteo Salvini.
“Look at the intitlations of anything, there are often people to whom an event, a way, even a way, a square, a monument that in life had pros and cons, but after looking at the complex of the thought of inheritance and no one can deny that this intitlation honors thought, work and above all the indelible groove that Silvio Berlusconi left in the entrepreneurship and politics. If anyone finds another who has managed to do more in all these fields together let me know and I will take note of it.”.
FERRANTE “MALPENSA INTITOLATO A BERLUSCONI, PROTAGONISTA STORIA ITALIA”
“Intitling Milan Malpensa airport to Silvio Berlusconi means recognizing the role our President has played in the history of the country as an entrepreneur, a man of the institutions and protagonist of Italian political life. Today we celebrate an extraordinary man who has contributed decisively to the development and modernization of Italy. This choice acquires even more value because Malpensa is the first national stop for freight traffic, Italy’s door to the world and symbol of a dynamic, modern and able to compete internationally.” The Undersecretary at the Mit Tullio Ferrante di Forza Italia, who participated in the ceremony of intitlation of Milan Malpensa airport to Silvio Berlusconi. “Millions of travellers will arrive and depart from the airport ‘Silvio Berlusconi’ and, through this name, will continue to remember – adds – a protagonist of Italian history, deeply linked to Milan and Lombardy, who has been able to project our country beyond the national borders. The initiation of an airport takes on, in this sense, an even deeper meaning: Silvio Berlusconi was also a precursor in the vision of the great works and infrastructures as engines of development and openness of Italy to the world. It is a recognition that fills us with pride and that returns the stature of a figure that marked an era, leaving an inheritance that will continue to speak to the next generations.
As Forza Italia we have promoted and supported from the beginning this proposal and I want to thank the Minister Matteo Salvini and Enac for having completed this path. Silvio Berlusconi has made the ability to look to the future one of the figures of his experience, leaving a deep mark in national public life and innovating entrepreneurship, construction, communication and politics. The contribution it has made to the institutional, economic and social growth of the country is an immense heritage that belongs to all. Today we pay tribute to our President, to a great Milanese and – concludes Ferrante – to a great Italian”.
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