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More “Pro-Business” Measures Aren’t Going to Pull Italy Out of Crisis
When COVID-19 sent the global economy into meltdown, European leaders insisted they wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes they made after the 2008 crisis. But in Italy, a familiar cast of technocrats are again touting the same neoliberal recipes — hobbling the country’s public sector and driving ever-wider inequalities.