Italy: Mario Draghi suspended

NOTBorn in the cold hours of the Covid winter, Mario Draghi’s tenure yesterday came dangerously close to twilight on a sweltering Italian summer evening. After seventeen months of exercise – the average lifespan of transalpine executives over the past ten years – the Roman septuagenarian announced to his ministers that he wanted to throw in the towel. And thus put an end to the experience of a highly heterogeneous government team bringing together the League of Salvini to the Democratic Party, passing through the forzisti of Berlusconi and the former Five Star Anti-System Movement (M5S). “The majority of national unity that has supported this government since its creation no longer exists,” acknowledged the former head of the ECB. The “conditions” to “carry out the program” are no longer met…