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...tight-knit network of 1,100 highly specialized small firms. And it transformed a once modest rural area into one of Italy's richest and most dynamic commercial zones, a district with virtually full employment and a chronic shortage of skilled labor. "We were the China of Europe," boasts Giulio Fanin, an entrepreneur who makes machine tools for chair manufacturers...
...citizen last year. "When I was trying to decide if I was going to go for it, that was the biggest worry," she says. Nor does swapping your nationality guarantee Olympic success. Italy isn't expected to cruise through the ice hockey draw, much less earn a medal. Forward Giulio Scandella, a Montreal native who has held an Italian passport since he was 16, concedes that expectations for his team are low. "Our goal is to pass the first round," he says. The odds, alas, are long. Italy's first opponent is none other than star-studded medal contender Team...
...rely on poorly paid, insecure jobs or, even worse, simply stop looking for any work at all. Global competitiveness, market flexibility and the uncertainty of today's economies do the rest. The unemployment problem is a social time bomb and may end in the crumbling of major Western economies. Giulio Cicconi Teramo, Italy...
...rely on poorly paid, insecure jobs or, even worse, simply stop looking for any work at all. Global competitiveness, market flexibility and the uncertainty of today's economies do the rest. The unemployment problem is a social time bomb and may end in the crumbling of major Western economies. Giulio Cicconi Teramo, Italy...
...Berlusconi, itself no paragon of arm's-length transactions. Yet even Berlusconi finally found enough moral high ground to call on Fazio to resign his lifetime post after Finance Minister Domenico Siniscalco quit in protest when his calls for Fazio to step down had no effect. Siniscalco's replacement, Giulio Tremonti, who clashed with Fazio in an earlier stint as Finance Minister, tried to force him out by snubbing him at an International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington. Fazio still refused to budge...