In ten years a third of Milan’s residents have been replaced. In March the city rejected the justice reform by a wider margin than the national average, while its own region approved it, and exactly one district out of nine voted against all the others: the historic centre. Two referendums nine months apart, on subjects…
Business succession is not a question for the notary. Last June 314,824 Italian sole proprietorships had an owner aged seventy or more, almost twenty-five thousand more than a decade earlier, while the total number of such firms fell by three hundred thousand. When they close, the machinery gets sold. What the owner knew and never…
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.