Italy’s coalition of centre-right parties has proposed a raft of sweeping policies that would cause a blow-out in the budget deficit and possibly a significant shrinking of the workforce. But in practice the most that they can hope for is to pass watered-down versions of some of their policies. A bigger issue is that areas in greater need of reform seem likely to be overlooked.
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