2011 SVIMEZ REPORT: A DIRE SITUATION FOR THE SOUTH
The 2011 SVIMEZ report paints a dim picture for Italy’s south, where economic growth (2009 GDP +0.2%) is slower than in the north (+1.7%), one third of young adults are out of work, overall unemployment is 25%, and the population average age is increasing.
Business
More than half of small business closures between 2008 and 2010 was in the south; while the region employs 30% of the Italian workforce, 60% of layoffs where in the south. According to the report, business should be encouraged in the south, especially through fiscal incentives.
Unemployment
Of the [...]
NAPOLITANO: A DIVIDED ITALY WILL NOT GROW
The President of the Republic has once again called for Italy to be united. After criticising the leader of the Northern League, Umberto Bossi, who keeps calling for secession from the south, Napolitano said, during a visit in Naples, that ‘either Italy grows united, or it does not grow at all’ replying to those who asked whether the economic growth of Italy depends on that of the south.
‘Italy is one, Padania does not exist’. The President appealed to political parties, as well as to civic and economic societies, to be [...]
ROUNDTABLE FOR A NATIONAL PACIFICATION PROCESS
Conference: ‘From Togliatti to Berlusconi’, organised by the Gaetano Salvemini Foundation, Rome, 21st September 2011
ITALY OUT OF THE EU TO LEAD A NEW MEDITERRANEAN UNION
Italy needs to leave the EU and become a leading country in the Mediterranean region. At the same time we would leave the single currency, which has brought the Italian economy to its knees.
Editoriale
Fairness for Italy in Europe
In the past few weeks, Prime Minister Monti’s primary objective was to turn around the Italian economy, and to do so with fairness. We shall see whether the objectives have been reached, while striking a balance between social and fiscal justice, let alone financial one. We shall also see whether those measures have kept into account not only the inequalities within the country, but also those, which exist between Italy and Europe, and which are, in the current economic [...]
SALVEMINI, Further reading
Selected bibliography on Salvemini’s work and thought: Pescosolido, G. ed., (2010) Gaetano Salvemini (1873-1957). Ancora un riferimento, Lacaita: [...]
APPROFONDIMENTI
EDITED VOLUME ON SALVEMINI’S APPROACH TO THE SOUTH’S PROBLEMS
On 8th December the Corriere della Sera published an edited volume, titled ‘The Left and the Southern problem’. The book, prefaced by Giovanni Russo, underlines Gaetano Salvemini’s efforts to help the south of Italy redeem itself.
On the same day, the Milan daily published an article, by Gaetano Pecora, on Salvemini, who liked to refer to himself as an ‘old fashioned social-democrat’. The article points out that Salvemini belonged to the reformist wing of the socialist movement, which fought for universal franchise, even for the uneducated southern peasants, thus laying the [...]
KING GIORGIO, HEAD OF THE REPUBLIC
Giorgio Napolitano, the Italian President, has managed to hold the reins of Italy, strictly within the constitutional limits of his office, during one of the most crucial times in the country’s recent history. It is because of such merits that The New York Times has dedicated to “King Giorgio” its Saturday Profile on 3 December.
It is a long, passionate portrayal of the former ‘communist’, who ensured a rapid transition from Berlusconi’s government to the technocratic one of Monti, taking the former professor away from his duties at Bocconi University and [...]
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