A Europe of Technocrats?
Fabrizio Tassinari writes about the new Italian and Greek governments
The nomination of non-elected technocrats to lead Greece and Italy opens new questions about whether the European Union’s “democratic deficit” is now spreading to the crisis-stricken polities of the Euro-zone periphery. Senior researcher Fabrizio Tassinari explains why such governments tend to be surprisingly popular in Southern Europe. This notwithstanding, the author concedes that the inability of elected governments to push through unpopular reforms represents a damning verdict on the current political class in both Italy and Greece.
The article was syndicated, among others, to Canada's The Globe and Mail,Die Welt, and Les Echos, France's financial newspaper.
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