Every other day of the hot summer holi-days, it seems, one of Silvio Berlusconi's new ministers has been floating a kite. Out flies an idea in a speech or interview, the opposition on the left dissents, arguments break out in the press and sometimes even within the new government, and then Mr Berlusconi's spin doctors and pollsters measure the general reaction. By the time parliament returns in two weeks' time, priorities and possibilities will become plainer, and legislation can begin in earnest. That, at any rate, is the new team's strategy.
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