Li deportiamo tutti?
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Economic role
Mass expulsions are not going to take place in Italy. To see why not, visit any construction site in the country’s capital.
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Half an hour south of the centre of Rome, at a canteen on an industrial estate, construction workers queue up for lunch. Plates are piled high with chickpeas in broth, scallopine milanese and a choice of pasta.
A fifth of workers on one government project here are Romanian; they do the jobs, says one union organiser, that Italians either don’t want to do any more or no longer have skills for. It would, says the project’s manager, “be difficult for us to manage” without the Romanians.
Italy is at one extreme end of Europe’s demographic crisis; it has a catastrophically low birth rate. It needs to import workers for key sections of its economy to keep functioning.
For Italy - and for much of Europe - the question is not if immigration should take place, but how it should proceed and if integration can be managed.
This last week in Italy has not set a happy precedent.
Corriere.it
“Finanziaria, che fatica. Proseguono in Senato le votazioni per l’approvazione della manovra economica: una vera maratona, resa ancora più estenuante dal risicato vantaggio della maggioranza sull’opposizione. E il ministro della Giustizia, Clemente Mastella, prova a ingannare il tempo - e forse anche a stemperare la tensione - giocando con un elastico “
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