Italy needs a reboot — appropriate enough in a country shaped like an item of footwear.
Few countries can boast anything like the heritage the land that produced the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. But few, in Europe at least, are as uncertain about what the future holds.
Italy is the soft underbelly of the European project, and perhaps the entire European economy. Its enduring problems have been fertile ground for the populism of one son of the port city of Genoa, the comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo. But it is to the example of another son of Genoa, Andrea Doria, a 16th-century pirate-hunting …read more
Source: European Voice
