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Will Pope have a ‘Pell Problem’ with Super Mario over visions of reform?
New Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. (Credit: Associated Press.)
Ten days ago, Italian economist Luigino Bruni, who convened the recent “Economy of Francis” seminar and who’s a thinker close to the pope, warned that Mario Draghi may not be the leader of the pope’s dreams in an interview with the widely read Famiglia Cristiana newsmagazine.
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ROME – During the St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI years, the Vatican had a council of cardinals from around the world who allegedly oversaw its financial affairs. Members of that body routinely complained that the information they received was incomplete, that it lacked credibility and was fundamentally untrustworthy.
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A New Prime Minister in Rome
Can Mario Draghi Turn Italy Around?
Italy was facing a huge number of problems – and then was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. As Mario Draghi takes over as prime minister, he has set himself the task of reversing his country s economic and political fortunes. Can he do it?
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi: He is the best thing that can happen to us.
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His tenure hadn t even officially begun before he successfully performed a rather impressive political trick: Mario Draghi, the new prime minister of Italy, pacified Rome. Numerous politicians who had been firing off below-the-belt insults at each other just two weeks earlier were now sitting together in Draghi s national coalition – from the left-wing fringe to the right-wing Lega.
Vatican City, Feb 17, 2021 / 02:00 am (CNA).- Mario Draghi, an economist and retired banker, was sworn in as prime minister of Italy on Saturday, after the previous government coalition collapsed when a party pulled its support for then prime minister Giuseppe Conte.
As President Sergio Mattarella’s pick to form a new government, Draghi was an unexpected choice. But he was able to win enough support to form a new coalition, appointing a mix of technocrats and politicians to his cabinet.
Many in Italy hope that the 73-year-old Draghi, president of the European Central Bank from 2011 to 2019, can save the country’s faltering economy. He is credited with saving the failing euro during the eurozone crisis, earning him the nickname “Super Mario.”
Pope Francis signaled his approval for the economist in July 2020, when he named him as one of 26 ordinary academicians of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which promotes the study of econo
CIGI President Rohinton P. Medhora joined International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and others for an audience with Pope Francis to discuss data innovation and multilateralism. Academic luminaries, including economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs, along with CIGI Senior Fellow and Argentina’s Minister of Economy Martín Guzmán, participated at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences event in February.
Medhora stressed that the global system has been “sclerotic” but does eventually respond and is, moreover, needed to ensure that data and data infrastructure are part of preserving an open society and a healthy infrastructure. “We need a broad moral and pragmatic statement that will guide us all in how technology is created and how technology is used,” Medhora suggested, referring as well to the need for a multilateral Digital Stability Board.