Draghi Comments on Italy’s Lack of Structural Reform

Mario Draghi says Italy can only blame itself for its third recession since 2007.

The day after data showed the euro-area’s third-biggest economy unexpectedly contracted last quarter, the European Central Bank president singled out his country’s lack of structural reform and the disincentive for investment it engenders. That followed an opening statement that lamented the region’s “uneven” recovery.

“I keep on saying the same thing, really — I mean, of reforms in the labor market, in the product markets, in the competition, in the judiciary, and so on and so forth,” Draghi, the former Bank of Italy governor, said in Frankfurt yesterday after keeping ECB interest rates unchanged at record lows. “These would be the reforms which actually have and have shown to have a short-term benefit.”

Bloomberg

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