Incoming Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has named a government entirely composed of unelected figures, just days after a technocratic government was installed in Greece, where the presence of far-right figures linked to the military junta are raising hackles.
Monti, an ex-EU-commissioner, was appointed officially on Wednesday by the president of the republic.
The new leader has in turn also appointed himself finance minister and, in a move likely to amplify criticisms that a ...
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