Doctor Draghi, Strong Medicine Or Just Another Painkiller?
Italy s new Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the highly respected former head of the European Central Bank, is tasked with fixing festering systemic failures.
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ROME Mario Draghi is finally the new Italian Prime Minister. On Thursday, the Lower House of Parliament voted him in with a staggering 535 votes in favor, 56 against, and 5 abstentions. Such a wide majority is a telling detail: Italians have huge confidence and sky-high expectations, seeing in Draghi a man who can rescue the country a kind of
superdoctor to cure the sickness eating Italy from inside..
The situation reminds me of the latest work by Seoul-born German philosopher Byung-Chul Han, an intriguing little book titled