As Italy’s new conservative governing coalition begins sifting through the wreckage left by decades of left-leaning government, among its biggest challenges is restructuring a bureaucracy stuffed to the gills with patronage appointments, i.e., incompetents. The new government, writes José Papparelli in the European Conservative, must begin restaffing using people of merit or Italy will continue wallowing in the failed practices of the past.
Javier Milei Shows how it’s Done
The “chainsaw” taken by Argentina’s new-ish president, Javier Milei, to his battered nation’s bloated bureaucracy, catastrophic finances and – perhaps most important – failed leftist governing dogmas has worked magic. As David Harsanyi notes in Jewish World Review, Argentina’s public service has shrunk by tens of thousands, the budget is nearly in balance, inflation has plunged, trade is reviving and wages are inching up. The lessons for Canada and the U.S. are clear.
