Most Italians breathed a collective sigh of relief that three-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is being replaced by a technocrat par excellence, former European Commissioner Mario Monti, a respected economist. Greece, too, is turning over the reigns of government to an unelected, and supposedly apolitical, technocrat, Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank.
在意大利，曾三度担任总理的希尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼终于被一位出色的技术官僚，前欧盟委员会委员，著名经济学家马里奥·蒙蒂所取代，这让所有意大利人都松了一口气。而希腊在经历了前任政府辞职之后也转向了卢卡斯·巴帕德莫斯——这也是一位非民选，据说对政治也不太热心的技术官僚，曾任欧洲央行副行长。