Milan Malpensa airport named after Silvio Berlusconi

Milan Malpensa airport was named after Silvio Berlusconi. The official ceremony took place with the presence, among others, of the President of the Senate La Russa, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani and of Infrastructures Matteo Salvini and the President of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana.

"The knowledge that the Milan-Malpensa Silvio Berlusconi airport will welcome thousands of travelers from all over the world every day fills me with pride. What better name could a bridge like this have than that of Silvio Berlusconi?". Thus Marina Berlusconi, interviewed by ANSA, on the day the Milanese airport was named after the former prime minister, recalling how he was "a man who always sought dialogue with everyone". "My father spent his life looking ahead and into the distance - he adds -. I like to think that, from today, his name will welcome those arriving from other countries and will accompany those taking off towards new destinations".

Naming Malpensa airport after Silvio Berlusconi is the "best memory" that can be made of him. This was stated by his brother Paolo who recalls how "Silvio loved Italy and everything he did he did for the good of what he defined as 'my homeland'". “Today Silvio is no longer here - comments Paolo Berlusconi - but he is present in all his urban, political and entrepreneurial achievements”. “Today Silvio is also here - he insists - 'our homeland is Italy he said but our future is Europe', so what better contribution to the memory of Silvio than to give his name to the gateway to Europe and the world?”.

“It is a very happy choice that Milan Malpensa airport is dedicated to him, the gateway to the world and the gateway to his city”. The Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, said this today in a video message broadcast during the dedication, remembering the late founder of Forza Italia. "President Berlusconi is a statesman who made the history of our country - added the deputy prime minister -. He changed the terms and languages of political debate. He was one of the best-known Italians in the world. In today covering the role of Foreign Minister, for which he himself proposed me at the beginning of the legislature, and today being at the United Nations I feel like I am continuing his work" "Berlusconi was Lombard and embodied the spirit of this region. The void he left in our hearts and in Italian politics it is unbridgeable" Tajani then concluded.

“A minimum of regret for those absent, today we remember one of the greatest entrepreneurs in Italian political history, it is not a party dedication, it is the recognition of reality”. Thus the deputy prime minister, minister of Infrastructure and transport and leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, during the ceremony.