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...south." Indeed, entrenched nationwide ills like tax evasion, cumbersome bureaucracy and a self-serving political class are of a piece with the south's blight - crime and blatant corruption. Neither the public nor private sectors have been modernized in Italy, as they have been elsewhere in Europe, explains Fabrizio Barca, a senior Italian Economy Ministry official. "The north has found ways to compensate for this, and can be competitive in spite of the state of country," he says. "It is the north that is the anomaly, not the south. Rome and its ministries operate like the south. Fixing the south...
Economy Ministry official Barca says basic democratic precepts are absent in many southern towns. "You need a civic debate on the simple things that improve the quality of life," he argues. "Citizens should ask why, if bus service arrives in the next town over, it doesn't arrive in their town too. For too long, there has been no punishment in the political marketplace...
...Peter Barca...
...meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg two weeks ago, Berlinguer introduced a resolution that condemned the Afghanistan invasion but also called upon the nine members of the European Community to preserve détente by negotiating with the Soviet Union on their own. In Rome Communist Spokesman Luciano Barca said: "We are closer to the Social Democrats of Germany and Benelux than to the party in France...
...many Italians, inured to such delays, the answer lies in open concubinage. Italian Author Gabriella Barca, in her book / Separati (The Separated Ones), estimates that at least 800,000 Italians live quite publicly with second "wives" and families. The church, however, is adamantly opposed to a pending Italian divorce bill and even briefly took to Vatican Radio to beam its protest to the Italian people. Yet the Vatican's own reforms-even such enlightened measures as the new American regulations-will be crippled by a woeful lack of skilled manpower. One fairly optimistic Vatican canon lawyer estimates that only...