Technicians in the Ministries --- Your last point, Voyko, makes me think that in Italy we are more and more used to use Technical Ministers in some kind of Ministries (e.g. the former President of the Consitutional Court at the Justice Ministry; the Dean of a University at Education, University and Research Ministry; etc.). This, on the one side, reduces the technical/knowledge gap in policymaking, but sometimes also shows missing political skills, this bringing to other types of problems.

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