Papandreou, Berlusconi: exit the politicians...

"... From now on, bureaucrats will be managed by technocrats..."

"... the stuff of dreams..."

At only a few days interval, the Greek and Italian prime ministers were replaced by Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti, two economists with experience of the European institutions and entrusted with enforcing measures demanded by the EU to combat the eurozone crisis.

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