Commentaries by Paola Subacchi

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  Mar. 30, 2013

  Italy’s Greek Tragedy

  LONDON – The euro crisis is not yet over. After months of relative calm in the eurozone, financial markets are again gripped by uncertainty,…

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  Feb. 14, 2013

  An Economic Agenda for Italy

  MILAN – At the end of this month, Italian voters will choose their next government, from which they expect jobs and a more level economic pl…

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  Feb. 1, 2013

  An Era of Currency Wars?

  LONDON – Once again, the risk of “currency wars” has been invoked by a leading policymaker. The term was coined in 2010 by Brazil’s finance …

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  Nov. 16, 2012

  China’s Growth Challenge

  BEIJING – Throughout the just concluded 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ubiquitous television screens in trains and metro stati…

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  Oct. 31, 2012

  Europe’s Unending Berlusconi Problem

  LONDON – Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time prime minister and the country’s dominant politician for two decades, has now been convicted …

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  Sep. 17, 2012

  Normalizing Italy

  LONDON – Italy’s political exceptionalism – its chronic inability to marshal coherent governments backed by stable parliamentary majorities …