Right from the title readers can understand that the text will deal with two people. They probably are Mario Monti and Silvio Berlusoni. We can understand that from the big picture on the left of the article that represents Mario Monti. The article is arranged into 4 paragraphs. The first introduces the idea of the blog CASSANDRA, the second talks about Mario Monti and Silvio Berlusconi, the third about Mario Monti’s ideas and the last one explains blogger’s considerations. The layout is very clearly structured because of the use of the picture which keep the attention of the reader and at the same time gives information about the of the topic article.

The choice of the picture is not casual because reading the text you can notice that the clue of the article is Mario Monti and that the blog ‘Cassandra’ of the Economist admires him.

‘Cassandra’ is a blog ( in The Economist) that tries to make predictions about the future (year 2013) as did Cassandra in Greek Mithology.

The text talks about the problems that Mario Monti could meet during the 2013. The second paragraph introduces the political enemy of Mario Monti and it informs that Silvio Berlusconi is very important because it dominates the Media. The third paragraphs is an extract from The World in 2013 and reports Mario Monti’s Words. It has the function to explain the Premier’s political and social ideas.

The last four lines include the considerations of “ The Economist “. M. Monti will have a difficult battle against S. Berlusconi.

Reading the text we can understand that the ideal reader is a person that works with economy and politics.

The message of this article is that Mario Monti is a good minister but it is difficult for Italians to accept that they will retire later and pay more for their old age so maybe they can vote S. Berlusconi ( because he has the power on the media and has a different political program) at the follow election.