It is unclear how much Javier Milei governs. What there is no doubt is that he travels more than any other president in the last 40 years of democracy in Argentina. Yesterday, on his last day in Prague, and during his acceptance speech for a prize – now questioned – he stated without blushing that he would probably be given “the Nobel Prize in Economics” together with his chief advisor Demian Reidel. . Of course, first the economic plan they are applying must go well, which represents one of the toughest adjustments in recent times.
After touring Spain and Germany, Milei ended up in the Czech capital where he met with Prime Minister Petr Fiala. A meeting that helped him justify that it was an official trip. But what Milei was most interested in was the award given to him by the Liberal Institute of the Czech Republic. It was a decoration for having become the Latin American reference for neoliberalism, adjustments and the progressive cancellation of state policies.
“There is no country in the world where they do not recognize our titanic task in terms of lowering inflation, the fiscal adjustment that we are making,” he exaggerated during a brief contact with the press.
He took advantage of that contact to make a unique interpretation of his questioned social policy. Abroad, he said, “far from questioning social policy, they ponder it because they understand that, faced with an adjustment of this caliber, social policy has had to be extremely good because, if we had not acted correctly, it would have been a catastrophe.” . However, when he met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he asked him to protect “social cohesion.”
The Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, who participated in the delegation, signed with his counterpart Jana Černochová, a memorandum of understanding on military cooperation that is in line with Milei’s intention to integrate the country with NATO as a Global Partner.
The Nobel Prize
After receiving the decoration, it was time for the speech. Milei did not hide his joy for the award and went on to defend his government and his economic program, but no one expected that the adrenaline would lead him to imagine himself at the zenith of the international awards.
“These types of issues are obviously important, I would almost call them core. To the point that with my chief advisor, Dr. Demian Reidel, we are rewriting a large part of economic theory, to be able to derive Pareto optimality, both static and intertemporal, having functions of non-convex production,” said the president (SIC) and then stated that “if it ends up going well, they will probably give me the Nobel Prize in Economics along with Demian. But that is part of another story, because it would correct this problem, the problem would disappear. conflict between the pin factory and the invisible hand,” he added.
However, after the flashes, information emerged that the presidential delegation sought to ignore. And the director of the Prague Liberal Institute, Martin Panek, reported that the institution had nothing to do with the award given to Miley and, as it turned out, he blamed Jiri Schwarz for organizing an unofficial event on behalf of the institution. . What’s more, Panek said that this Schwarz has not been part of the Liberal Institute for a long time.
On the other hand, Panek indicated that “it is premature to grant this award to Milei” and even said that the institution is “against its measures against drugs, abortion and public demonstrations.” Milei and her entourage made no reference to these statements and left with the decoration under her arm.
