Italian cabinet approves 'mother of all reforms' to slash red tape

The Italian government today approved a package of measures aimed at cutting the complicated red tape that has long been blamed for crimping growth in the euro zone's third-largest economy.

The "simplification decree”, approved after weeks of fraught political negotiation, has been touted by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte as "the mother of all reforms" to help relaunch an economy brought to its knees by the coronavirus...