- Silvio Berlusconi
- high unemployment rate for youth and graduates
- pension plan in Italy is generational
- Mafia, Camorra, Ndrangheta have their hands in everything and everyone
- intolerance and racism towards immigrants
- Lega Nord
- cuts to education and research mostly in public schools
- government favours private schools over public schools
- living on 800-1200 Euros a month
- no fresh blood
- young people think that the only way to make it is to go on tv and participate in reality shows
- prostitution is legal
- traffic
- purse snatchers and pickpockets
- SLOW processing times for documents
- LONG line ups at banks, post offices, police stations
- when public servants don't have/know all the information, they refer you to someone, who will then refer you to someone else. Information received is scattered and you don't know what to believe.
- "veline", "letterine", escort, prostitutes
- reality shows
- there hasn't been a strong, lasting government since the end of WWII
- Entrepreneurs have problems opening activities
- Infrastructure contracts are corrupt
- All the serious money stays in the hands of few and never gets distributed among the masses.
- Euro makes everything expensive
- gypsies and ROM camps
- infrastructural/transportation projects that have been started 10, 15, 20 years ago and have not been completed.
- hours of operation in government offices
- politicians create laws to protect themselves from being put on trial
apr 20 2011 ∞
jun 15 2011 +