A window of opportunity is opened for Italian reforms

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Italy's Bassanini law will provide agencies the chance to improve their bureaucratic management structures and create more effective ways to allocate research funds. This is in line with the Italian parliament's promotion of efficiency in public institutions. Research minister Luigi Berlinguer now has the right to reorder and rationalize all efforts leading to the promotion and support of scientific and technological research. Changes that will result from the Bassanini law, which will take effect for only a year, must be in accordance with the government's strategic goals for research.

Laws, regulations and rules, Research institutes, Science and technology policy, Berlinguer, Luigi

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Italian minister faces short spell, hot seat

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Giorgio Salvini, a particle physicist from the University of Rome, has been announced as the fifth minister for universities and research within two years. The political upheavals in Italy cast doubts over the long-term holding of office by Salvini. Salvini is faced with many challenges, including dealing with the problems in Italian science such as the lack of medium- and long-term planning of research.

Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Salvini, Giorgio

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Economist promises aid to Italian research

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Romano Prodi, an industrial economist who leads the center-left coalition for political power in Italy, has put education and science at the top of his agenda. Investment in science should be increased for greater independence of universities to develop basic science and industrial needs. Prodi has a specific proposal for this and wants control of Italy's new science park program.

Economic policy, Prodi, Romano

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