Alan Friedman: people understood, politicians not

Why Italy has dropped into the worst crisis in 30 years? The fault is Germany's austerity imposed on Europe? The single currency? Or the mediocrity of the ruling class? There is a way out, a recipe for to remake the country? To answer these questions, Alan Friedman, maybe the foreign journalist who knows better the Italian reality, starting from the eighties years when Italy was the "fifth largest economy in the world" and appeared headed for a real modernization, coming to dramatic events of recent years, between interviews with former council chairpersons, by analyzing possible solutions.

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