It wouldn’t be “Super Mario” Draghi, the former European Central Bank (ECB) governor who has now been roped into Italy’s perpetually chaotic politics to try to form a government.

Draghi is highly respected in Europe for his tenure at the central bank. However, placating the notoriously thrifty Germans regarding the Eurozone’s easy-money policy (“We will do whatever it takes” to save the Euro, he said, famously, in 2012) is surely an easier gig than trying to corral Italy’s unwieldy political parties into something approaching a team...

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