Colosseum, Draghi's quip to Franceschini: if one listens too much to experts, one does nothing

Rome, a little joke at the end of theopening of the G20 Culture held Friday night at the Colosseum: at the end of the proceedings, Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Culture Minister Dario Franceschini exchanged a few words around the project of the reconstruction of theColosseum arena, an 18 million euro plan that by 2023 will show a new image of Rome’s best-known monument.

In the video of the G20 Culture opening, after an hour and ten minutes, participants are seen leaving the Colosseum and microphones pick up the brief conversation between Franceschini and Draghi: “we will have to finish maybe before the 2023 elections,” says the culture minister, “all the completion of the arena.” Franceschini then adds, “there has been some protest from archaeologists and instead it is a beautiful thing.” The council president responds with a joke: “I learned that if one listens too much to the experts, one does nothing.”

The outburst raised a lively discussion on social media, between those who branded Draghi’s exit as a gaffe, a slip that the prime minister should have avoided, and those who emphasized the joking tone with which Draghi delivered his joke.

Colosseum, Draghi's quip to Franceschini: if one listens too much to experts, one does nothing

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