MILAN (Reuters) - Fed up with a Byzantine bureaucracy that is scaring off foreign investors, Mario Monti's technocrat government has proposed changing Italy's constitution to hack through a tangle of local veto powers that have been stifling infrastructure projects.
Getting permits to build badly-needed power plants, roads and tunnels in Italy can require a nod from 30 different local and regional entities, eating up time and money and prompting some investors to abandon projects.
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