Call it karma? As Italy’s PM, Draghi to face problems he helped create
If Italy’s prime minister-designate Mario Draghi gets his government off the ground, he will have to confront several thorny problems that – in previous jobs – he had a role in creating.
Draghi, a former European Central Bank chief, is feted in Italian media as a national saviour and parties who have fought each other for years now want to join forces in his coalition, but his record has shadows as well as light.
Resurrecting the Italian economy, the most chronically sluggish in the euro zone, will be his top priority, but he will also have big corporate headaches to resolve, from the plight of the world’s oldest bank to that of Italy’s main road-toll operator.