Reshuffle in Rome: New outlook needed following Berlusconi's bungled defence agenda

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The hasty resignation and replacement of the gaffe-prone Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister of Italy comes as Rome’s sovereign debt crisis threatens to pull the entire Eurozone into the abyss. As emergency meetings convene to steer Italy away from disaster, recent events will do nothing to rectify another on-going crisis - the chronic malaise of Italiandefence policy. In July, Rome was forced to withdraw the aircraft carrier Garibaldi from operations off Libya to save costs, just one of...

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