By Enrico Longobucco. Exactly 1 year ago, Mario Monti’s government took office in Italy after 3 ½ years of the third centre-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi. Most Italians were enthusiastic about this new government, which was not expressly chosen by citizens, but still perfectly legitimate under the Italian Constitution which states that the President of the …
By Enrico Longobucco. Reasons why a technocratic government does not represent a democratic deficit in Italy, but something that people need In recent days, a number of important Italian newspapers published surveys about confidence in Prime Minister Mario Monti. The approval rate for Monti seems to be about 50 per cent, the lowest figure recorded throughout …
By Martina Cicakova. The Slovak population seems to have awakened this year after a long time of ostensible hibernation. Slovakia, a small state situated in the heart of Europe, has in the last two months become a stage of intensive political activity on a level that has been compared to the Velvet Revolution in November …
