Mario Calabresi
Mario Calabresi (b. 1970) is an Italian journalist and author. He worked for Italian news agency ANSA and La Repubblica before joining La Stampa in 2000. He has been editor in chief of the Turinese daily since 2009. He has written, among others, Pushing Past the Night, a book on the victims of terrorism during Italy's "Years of Lead", of which his father, a police officer assassinated in 1972, was one.
Updated: 18 January 2017
The resignation of Italy's Prime Minister, announced on December 7, has caused some concern in Italy and abroad. But in the face of Silvio Berlusconi's attempt to exploit social unrest, what other path was open to a technocratic government that has made such an effort to rehabilitate the country? 
Berlusconi’s agony has brought down markets and pushed Italian bonds’rates above 7 per cent, threatening a credit crunch that would sink the whole eurozone. The only foreseeable solution is to quickly set up a unity government led by the widely respected former EU commissioner, writes La Stampa's editor in chief.