The Italian Prime Minister has so far pursued a careful, pragmatic approach to government. Her greatest test will be whether she can implement her ambitious reform of Italy’s constitution while keeping political rivals in check.
Italy is the home of two important experiments. One is political: three years ago this month it became the first of the major protagonists from the 20th century’s European wars to elect as its leader someone who identifies their political roots as coming from fascism. The other is economic: as the largest recipient of the first big transfers of European Union funds derived from collective borrowing, known as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, Italy has in effect become a test of whether such transfers can be handled safely and well in a country viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans as inherently corrupt and riven with organised crime.
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