From the article " In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment "
"The pattern of life of low-tech (low tech) may enthrall tourists, but the use of Internet and electronic commerce are among the lowest in Europe, so as wages, foreign investment and growth. Pensions, public debt and the cost of public administration are among the highest.
The latest data refer to a nation older and poorer, so that his bishop has proposed the largest increase food parcels for the poor .
70% of Italians between 20 and 30 years living in her parents' house, a teenager sentenced to a long and increasingly unproductive. Many of the brightest, like the poorest a century ago, leaving Italy.
Ronald Spogli, U.S. Ambassador who knows Italy for forty years, warns that Italy risks a reduction of its international role and relations with Washington. The best friends are business partners and Italy is not among the most important. Bureaucracy and unclear rules have led the U.S. investment in Italy at only 16.9 billion dollars in 2004 while in Spain was 49.3 billion.
In Denmark 64% of people have confidence in Parliament, in Italy 36%. Statistics show that the ' 11% of Italian families live below the poverty line and 15% had difficulty to make ends meet on their salaries. "
"The pattern of life of low-tech (low tech) may enthrall tourists, but the use of Internet and electronic commerce are among the lowest in Europe, so as wages, foreign investment and growth. Pensions, public debt and the cost of public administration are among the highest.
The latest data refer to a nation older and poorer, so that his bishop has proposed the largest increase food parcels for the poor .
70% of Italians between 20 and 30 years living in her parents' house, a teenager sentenced to a long and increasingly unproductive. Many of the brightest, like the poorest a century ago, leaving Italy.
Ronald Spogli, U.S. Ambassador who knows Italy for forty years, warns that Italy risks a reduction of its international role and relations with Washington. The best friends are business partners and Italy is not among the most important. Bureaucracy and unclear rules have led the U.S. investment in Italy at only 16.9 billion dollars in 2004 while in Spain was 49.3 billion.
In Denmark 64% of people have confidence in Parliament, in Italy 36%. Statistics show that the ' 11% of Italian families live below the poverty line and 15% had difficulty to make ends meet on their salaries. "
The full article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/world/europe/13italy.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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