A Spanish Mario Draghi

Europa Sur

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It was 2012, and a young man was preparing to begin his fourth year of university studies in Pisa on an Erasmus scholarship. That year, Italy (like Spain) was suffering from the financial crisis and its domestic effects. At the time, Mario Monti, a renowned economist and rector of one of the country's most important private universities, Bocconi University, was in power. Monti. We could say he was the third of the four technocratic presidents It…