Stagnant politics, aging populace stealing wind out of Italy's sails

From: Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current) | Date: December 15, 2007| Author: Ian Fisher | Copyright information

All the world loves Italy because it is old but still glamorous. Because it eats and drinks well but is rarely fat or drunk. Because it is the place in a hyper-regulated Europe where people still debate with perfect intelligence what, really, the red in a stoplight might mean.

But these days, for all the outside adoration and all of its innate strengths, Italy seems not to love itself. The word here is "malessere," or "malaise," and it implies a collective funk - economic, political a...

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