A former Italian prime minister. Together with Mario Draghi, another former Italian prime minister, he authored reports proposing a "28th regime" for the European Union—a single set of EU-wide regulations that firms could opt into if their national system held them back, designed to make the EU's second-largest-in-the-world market more accessible to startups and innovative companies. Under the 28th regime, a business could register once then operate freely across the bloc—much as Delaware incorporation allows in America. Nick Clegg has argued that Britain should join the scheme. (20260328, 20260411)
I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their time.