{"id":3758,"date":"2021-12-16T14:13:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:19:26","slug":"the-economist-crowns-draghi-italy-country-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/16\/the-economist-crowns-draghi-italy-country-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economist crowns Draghi, Italy country of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

But warns against ‘U-turn’ if PM elected president<\/p>

ANSA – The Economist has crowned Italy as its country of the year for 2021 saying it has “changed” with Premier Mario Draghi, a “competent premier respected at an international level” whose work at the helm of a national-unity government has made Italy “better than a year ago”. <\/p>

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epa09644803 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi during a EU summit in Brussels, Belgium, 16 December 2021. EU leaders will discuss developments related to COVID-19, crisis management and resilience, energy prices, security and defence, external aspects of migration and the situation in Belarus. EPA\/OLIVIER HOSLET \/ POOL<\/figcaption><\/figure>

It said there is a “majority that has buried its differences in support of a programme of sweeping reforms” in the light of the EU-funded post-COVID National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP). The Italian economy, The Economist said, is recovering better and faster than France and Germany’s. But it warned of the “danger that this unusual explosion of governance may suffer a U-turn” if Draghi were to be elected Italian president, “a more ceremonial role”, making way for a “less competent” premier. Recent opinion polls say about three quarters of Italians want Draghi to stay on as premier until the natural end of the parliamentary term in 2023, rather than being elected president early next year, a job he has not said he wants.<\/p>

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Which is The Economist\u2019s country of the year for 2021?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

TheEconomist – Each year<\/small>\u00a0The Economist<\/em>\u00a0picks a \u201ccountry of the year\u201d. The award goes not to the biggest, the richest or the happiest, but to the one that in our view improved the most in 2021. Past winners have included Uzbekistan (for abolishing slavery), Colombia (for making peace) and Tunisia (for embracing democracy).<\/p>

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The Economist<\/a><\/div><\/div>

Billionaires Battling Bankers Is Not a Good Look for Draghi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Washington Post – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi wants\u00a0to make his country more friendly to outside investors. But an ongoing\u00a0power struggle involving its largest insurer,\u00a0its\u00a0richest man and its most powerful investment banker is\u00a0not a good look.\u00a0Leonardo Del Vecchio\u2019s\u00a0fortune of nearly 40 billion\u00a0euros ($45.1 billion) is rooted in his eyewear group\u00a0Luxottica Group SpA,\u00a0which he merged with French lensmaker Essilor in 2018.\u00a0The 86-year-old has now turned his steely gaze to Italian finance and does not like what he sees at Italy\u2019s largest insurer \u2014\u00a0Assicurazioni Generali SpA, a core institution of European finance and one of the biggest buyers of Italy\u2019s sovereign debt.<\/p>

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Washington Post<\/a><\/div><\/div>

Economist incorona Draghi: “L’Italia \u00e8 il Paese dell’anno”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Adnkronos – Italia Paese del’anno 2021 grazie a Mario Draghi. L”onore’ viene riconosciuto dall’Economist, che definisce il premier “competente e rispettato a livello internazionale\u2026 auguroni!”. L’Italia, spiega l’Economist, non \u00e8 il Paese dell’anno per i suoi successi agli europei di calcio o delle sue pop star all’Eurovisione, ma lo \u00e8 “per la sua politica”. “Con Mario Draghi, ha acquisito un primo ministro competente, rispettato internazionalmente. Per una volta – scrive il settimanale – un’ampia maggioranza dei suoi politici ha sepolto le differenze per sostenere un programma di approfondite riforme, il che porter\u00e0 l’Italia ad avere i fondi che le spettano nel recovery plan dell’Ue”.<\/p>

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