Still no certainty on the announcement of the new US ambassador to Rome. Italy remains at the moment the only large country in the European Union for which the White House, after the change of administration, has not yet chosen a name. State Department sources interviewed by Adnkronos report that “an arrival in spring is not excluded”, but that “everything could absolutely slip”. The names? At the moment, US sources say, there is no certain indication.
After the departure of Lewis Eisenberg, appointed by Donald Trump, to hold the reins of theembassy in via Veneto is the interim charge d’affaires Thomas Smitham, who has distinguished himself, among other things, in the management of US aid to Italy, during the first phase of the pandemic. And yet, following the appointment last October of former Senator Joe Donnelly as ambassador to the Holy See, in Rome it was expected by the end of 2021 that of the new ambassador to the Italian Republic.
For the great European capitals Biden has chosen a women’s poker
Scrolling through the list of major EU countries, some of which also had to wait a long time for a name, Italy stands out for the absence of a new Washington representative. For Paris, Joe Biden has chosen Denise Bauer, former ambassador to Belgium, confirmed last December 18 by the Senate. For Berlin, another woman was chosen, Amy Gutmann, former president of the University of Pennsylvania, awaiting senatorial confirmation. It is always a woman who represents the USA a Madrid, with Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, who after the confirmation of the Senate last October, took office on 7 January.
Remaining in Europe, but outside the EU, another historic US ally still awaiting the name of the new ambassador is the United Kingdom. Also in London, at least according to press rumors, the new ambassador is a woman, Jane Hartley, former ambassador to France during the Obama administration. The risk for Hartley, still awaiting an official announcement from the White House, as well as for the new ambassador to Rome, is that the assumption of the assignment could be postponed to 2022 forwarded, due to the high number of presidential nominations that still have to be approved by the Senate.
(by Marco Liconti)
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