'Lazy' Italians get wake-up call
Updated on 12 November 2008
Italy's notoriously under-productive civil servants are being targeted by a campaign to improve their work-rate.
"Ferraris, we can make. Designer clothes, we can produce. Sun, pizza and love, we can provide a lot of," said minister of public functions Renato Brunetta. "It's the public administration that is below par."
Mr Brunetta has become a folk hero in Italy for his vow to modernise government offices and expel idlers among the 3.6 million public workers.
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