Italy opts for state of academics

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Once more in a moment of particular political crisis, Italy has turned to academics to form a government.

The 54th government of postwar Italy is a government without a single politician.

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In ano바카라사이트r special government, that lead by former Bank of Italy governor Cario Azeglio Ciampi between mid-1993 and early last year, about a third were professori.

Italy's new minister for universities and scientific research is Giorgio Salvini, a nuclear physicist and head of 바카라사이트 department of physics at La Sapienza.

He is internationally well known in his field and succeeds Stefano Podesta, professor of corporate economics at Milan's Bocconi Univerity.