Welcome to the Euro Intelligence Podcast. I'm Wolfgang Munchau and with me are Zuzana Monsenk and Jack Smith.

Today we want to talk about one of Italy's most successful exports. It's not a drink, it's not a car.

It's a governor technical, the technical government, which seems to be a very popular form of government and not only in Italy these days, but elsewhere in Europe

as well. Zanzani, you wrote this morning about the Left Alliance in France, having agreed

on a candidate for the job of Prime Minister, a technocrat. What's behind that?

Yes. So, last minute, really, the four parties of the Left Alliance, La France

Asemi's, Socialists, the Communists, and the Greens, they're Goloz. These four parties could

not agree on for 16 days they've been discussing. But Lucy Castetz, she was emerging slowly in these conversations.

And it turns out that she was the only one all the parties could agree with on.

And partly the reason was that she didn't have a political history.

She doesn't have any party affiliation.

So she didn't fall in any of the traps.

You couldn't be too close to the

one party or the other. She also was a staunch supporter of something that is very crucial to

the program, the repeal of the pension reform that Emmanuel Macron's government under Elizabeth

Bourne was pushing through. Now, a technocrat, she has a good reputation

in terms of where she came from, good education, science for London School of Economics and Enar.

So all these kind of potentials she has, ticks the boxes. She's now the Paris City Hall

responsible for the budget.

And the left claims, they have a claim on the prime minister's job.

This is disputed by Emmanuel Macron, who's clearly said yesterday, it's really not about the name,

but about whether or not you have a majority in parliament.

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