ROME: Renato Brunetta, minister of public administration and innovation, has won unusual bipartisan support for a bill that promotes principles of transparency, standards and meritocracy in the public sector. Italy's bitterly divided government and opposition don't often see eye to eye, but they have united in declared determination to make the country's deeply entrenched, sclerotic bureaucracy a tad more 21st century. Renato Brunetta, minister of public administration and innovation, has won unusual bipartisan support for a bill that promotes principles of transparency, standards and meritocracy in the public sector. It is, he trumpeted last week, an "epoch-making reform." The extraordinary bipartisan backing for the bill - which foresees crackdowns on proven idlers, widespread restructuring, and an increased monitoring of output - is a tacit acknowledgement that Italy's bureaucratic machine is at the root of the untold inefficiencies that discourage productivity and act as an added drag on an already sluggish economy.
ROME: Renato Brunetta, minister of public administration and innovation, has won unusual bipartisan support for a bill that promotes principles of transparency, standards and meritocracy in the public sector.
Italy's bitterly divided government and opposition don't often see eye to eye, but they have united in declared determination to make the country's deeply entrenched, sclerotic bureaucracy a tad more 21st century.
Renato Brunetta, minister of public administration and innovation, has won unusual bipartisan support for a bill that promotes principles of transparency, standards and meritocracy in the public sector. It is, he trumpeted last week, an "epoch-making reform."
The extraordinary bipartisan backing for the bill - which foresees crackdowns on proven idlers, widespread restructuring, and an increased monitoring of output - is a tacit acknowledgement that Italy's bureaucratic machine is at the root of the untold inefficiencies that discourage productivity and act as an added drag on an already sluggish economy.
I haven't the slightest idea what the good reporter Elisabetta Povoledo is talking about. Beyond an editorial in Sole 24 on promotions, I am at a total lose concerning even the vaguest sign of agreement on the left with whatever Brunetta spouts off. Brunetta spends most of his time gratuitously insulting anyone who is not a devotee of himself and his master, in that order. The past week he insisted that all leftists are "lazy-asses" (Elisabetta uses the genteel term "slackers"). This follows his arrogant snip at the largest workers' union in Italy, the CGIL, "who gives a shit about them," when it comes to negotiating state contracts. He's quite happy to have the minor conservative unions on board. Quislings who represent next to no one.
By the way, his drivel about having cut back absenteeism is unsubstantiated. One wonders if his bulimic compulsion to glorify himself derives from a serious personality disorder.
