I am sure the Italian Govt will get the money to Alitalia and it will survive another year.
No no no. The Italian Government (if it can be called that) is not giving money to Alitalia. It's Posta Italia that's giving them the money. And Posta Italia is ..... ? Surely nobody would even imagine for one moment that this is any way circumventing the rules! Surely not!
As the whole EU and everything connected with it is a farcical web of fraud and deceit, what difference will this make.
On perhaps a more serious note ........
supposing every Ppruner who is concerned about this perpetuation of fraud were to do what David Johnson has done and write to the EU, it might be a lot of emails and they might take some notice.