- Italy: Silvio Berlusconi's government is preparing the privatisation process and has announced the reconstitution of a privatisation committee, a body set up in 1993 to launch large-scale privatisation after a one-year gap. Another tranche of ENEL will be sold off (ENEL is still 68% state held) and ETI, the public company managing the previous tobacco monopoly, may also be sold. The state still fully controls all Italian post offices, POSTE ITALIANE, the railways - FERROVIE DELLO STATO...