What Italian business makes of Giorgia Meloni
Bosses are gearing up to work with the right-wing government
Like business leaders in other countries, Italian captains of industry have a history of striving for cordial relations with whomever is in power. That includes dealing with questionable characters like Silvio Berlusconi, a media tycoon who has been tried more than a dozen times for fraud, false accounting and bribery, and outright villains like Benito Mussolini, the second-world-war-era fascist dictator.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Giorgia on their mind”
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