One Italian in four is past 65, and every year 3.9 per cent of what the country produces goes on interest before anyone decides anything. A country built this way chooses safety, which is understandable. The trouble is that at twenty you are already defending something you do not have.

End of life cannot wait any longer. The Region set itself a deadline of 145 days, and the only case we can measure took 290.

On 21 January 2026 the Open Society Institute in Sofia published its Media Literacy Index 2026. Nineteen pages, forty one European countries, a score from zero to one hundred. Italy comes twenty third with 51 points. In the previous edition, 2023, it came twenty fourth with 47.