Italy Report 1999

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS A Country Harnessed, a Country Emboldened by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes  

CHAPTER I – PLANNING/IMPROVISATION

1. Looking for a worker for rent…
2. Undeclared work and wage realignment contracts
3. School, reform or collapse
4. Non-profit: economic opportunity, social opportunity
5. Immigration between costs and benefits

6: Agenda 2000: a document for the EU

7. Infrastructure and competitiveness: a challenge for Europe
8. Air transport infrastructures in Italy: an unusual case in the EU panorama
9. Telecommunications between expectations and delays
10. Abandoned Italy and disasters foretold

  CHAPTER II – AUTONOMY/DEPENDENCE

11. Public administration: the obscure forest of laws
12. The North, how much it costs us…
13. Public financing: the parties’ difficult task of squaring the circle
14. The new employment system: reform or end-of-century pipe dream?
15. Tailor-made work: from apprenticeship to employment
16. The difficult road to confidentiality: the law on privacy
17. Internet: the Babel of the new millennium
18. What game are we playing?
19. The world of children is changing…
20. Cooperation, a generosity that pays off

  CHAPTER III – ORDER/DISORDER

21. Are we men or corporals? In the front line for human rights
22. The multi-ethnic society. “The damned of the earth”
23. Disposable resources: small and great waste in Italy
24. The Republic of the Clever, or the Italy of Privilege
25. The Italian tax system: between dementia and rationalisation attempts
26. In the faithful centuries, all the numbers of the Corp
27. Smuggling business
28. The “business” of the ecomafia
29. The new antagonists: the Squatters and the young people of the social centres
30. The market of the psyche

  CHAPTER IV – YOUNG/OLD

31. Elderly” youth and “young” elderly: a mindset or registry data?
32. The green years of the third age: the elderly and free time
33. Let’s adopt a grandfather: assistance for the elderly
34. Young people and the elderly in associations
35. Saving: comparing generations
36. Youth entrepreneurship: an opportunity to be a protagonist in the world of work
37. The party of the unemployed
38. Early school leaving: is it just Candlewick’s fault?
39. Children at risk: forgotten prevention
40. UFOs to the people: the ufology of young radicals

  CHAPTER V – LIE/TRUTH

41. The invisible insurrection: the Luther Blissett case
42. Our daily survey
43. Poster advertising: messages of truth or lies?
44. People of the heart I
45. People of the heart II
46. Medical information: history of a right too often denied
47. Insurance policies: between the desire to cover risks and the desire to invest
48. Academic fraud
49. The factory of schtrops: forgeries and counterfeits in Italy
50. Sick football! Sport and doping

  CHAPTER VI – RELIGIOSITY/SECULARISATION

51. Iubilate Deo omnis terra
52. Vocations in Italy
53. Universities of faith: Catholic universities in Italy
54. Information on faith
55. Images of the soul: spirituality and religiosity
56. Fragments of the Orient: Buddhism
57. The New Age and modern man’s need for spirituality
58. The wild sacred
59. Reincarnation. New doctrine or product of secularisation?
60. The God of others: immigrants and religiosity