Monti vs Draghi: on the Pnrr the choice for Italy is between flexibility and compulsory rules

An article by Mario Monti, a high-level technocrat who practiced politics in Europe and Italy in a difficult moment with the devising of national unity, went politically and curiously unnoticed, in the same way as Mario Draghi although in different circumstances. Draghi did not make the mistake of entering party politics and elections a little too casually, something Monti did instead, but even for him the passage of the Quirinale and the exit from Palazzo Chigi had some element of problems. The legacy of technocratic governments of national unity is considered good or even excellent by anyone with salt in their heads, with all the differences in style and even symbolic meaning of the two experiencesbut Monti’s article mixes things up a bit and brings out a difference in interpretation, which we don’t know how we can’t take into account, on the crucial point of the Union’s multi-year financial plan of loans and grants called Next Generation Eu, with its intractable acronym Pnrr.