Mr Berlusconi has had to defend Mr Tremonti, a tax expert who seems happier ordering amnesties enabling people to bring back money illegally salted away abroad than assessing business cycles.[..]
In sum, the government's economic record looks shaky, and its ability to obey Europe's rules is suspect.Its priority has not been the economy, says Enrico Letta, the centre-left opposition's economics spokesman, but legislation on the criminal code (that is, in ways helpful to Mr Berlusconi and some of his friends).
