The Italian Job

 And these are the people who will supposedly be able to rescue Italy from the brink.

 "Back in Rome, the agriculture minister, Mario Catania, declared in irreproachably technocratic fashion that his new deputy would "bring value added". He admitted that he had not actually spoken to the distinguished Italo-Canadian professor, but added: "I know him by reputation."
All of which must have been pretty confusing for Altero Matteoli, the infrastructure minister in Italy's last government, who had warmly recommended for a post in the new government one Franco Braga, also a professor, but of construction engineering at Rome's Sapienza University. "To tell the truth," Matteoli was quoted as saying in the daily Corriere della Sera: "I recommended him for infrastructure, but they put him in agriculture.""

 [sigh]

 H/T: Dan Mitchell