Italy’s new prime minister has had a good first nine months
But there is a lot left to do, and not much time to do it in
FOR THE past six months Italians have been floating from triumph to triumph. It began in May when an Italian band, Maneskin, won the Eurovision song contest. In July their men’s football team became Europe’s champions and in August, at the Olympics, their male sprinters astonished the sporting world, claiming gold in the 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay. In October an Italian scientist, Giorgio Parisi, shared the Nobel prize for physics.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The Mario magic”
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