'Super Mario' will need to level up if he wants to dig Italy out of a political mess
He is just about the best known Italian face in the world. He will inspire confidence, at home and abroad." Economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund, Carlo Cottarelli, last week offered the above assessment of 73-year-old Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank president who yesterday morning was sworn into office to head the 67th post-war Italian government. For the umpteenth time in the last 30 years, or so it seems, a non-party political figure has had to come...
Source: independent.ie