Steathy Prodi and his band have decided to turn around 60,000 temporary Italian teachers into 60,000 permanent teachers. Very good. Prodi must have read the Economist, which ran an article about the near dire state of Italy’s education system, because it had so many floating pedagogues.
Ah, says my left leaning other half, you see, the left are better than the right. Well, ‘not exactly’, comes my retort. You see, ‘it was the economic maneuvers that the right carried out that raised enough cash to allow the left to do something useful’, I continued. She disagreed, as usual.

Stop reading, start speaking
Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.
Lean too far to the Left, and you fall over. Lean too far to the right, and you fall over. Mix the two, and you stay upright. Balanced.
Prodi is mixing, although he will never admit it.