Italy Report 2002

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS The Land of little Tartars by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes SECURITY/INSECURITY Imitation of life 1. Global terrorism and the new world order 2. NATO’s role in the new global context 3. From G7 to G9 4. Immigrants: between subordination and integration 5. The national telephone listening centre 6. New workers: between precariousness, overwork and stress 7 Female employment dynamics in Italy and the European Union 8. Domestic accidents and Inail insurance 9. Protection of privacy 10. The euro: expectations and prospects EGOISM/SOLIDARITY In search of lost solidarity 11. EU enlargement: openness and resistance 12. Fairtrade and ethical finance 13. Multinationals and socio-economic growth: only synergies? 14. Refugees in the world and the asylum right in Italy 15. The seven principles of solidarity 16. The Scout movement in Italy: the dimensions of the phenomenon 17. Fourth sector: extreme voluntary work 18. A gift made with the heart 19. Precarious welfare 20. Domestic work in Italy ILLUSION/DISILLUSION The hidden truth 21. Advertising investments, what’s new in the third millennium? 22. Cinema, an industry to be encouraged and protected 23. Big Brother, little television 24. Gambling fever: lotteries and prize games 25. The darkness beyond the occult 26. A virtue of the virtual world: sex 27. Drug addiction… a trip to the root of the phenomenon 28. Fitness, what a passion! 29. Extreme sports: emotions beyond all limits 30. Internet: media channel of counterculture   PROTECTION/DESTRUCTION Towards globalisation 31. The Italy of great works… never realised 32. Anti-pollution measures 33. Waste: production and management 35. “From farm to table”: the new food safety policy 36. Prevention in the workplace. What opportunities for vaccination? 37. Inequality in the animal world: between fat welfare and total exploitation 38. Children and the environment: the case of Campania 39. Blue parks 40. Protection of the cultural heritage SERVICE/DISSERVICE Penelope’s Country? 41. A new season for public communication 42. Rai: public service or commercial network? 43. The land of bells. Telephony in Italy 44. There was a sad and lonely track…. 45. Italian ports 46. The insurance product: profitability or protection? 47. Italian banks between the branch tradition and home banking 48. The reform of public employment services 49. A pragmatic approach to fiscal federalism in the Municipalities 50. Services for families RIGHT/LEFT From Plato to Rifkin 51. Right and Left: ideology or pragmatism? 52. The socio-cultural profile of the political class in the XIV Legislature 53. The bipolarisation of the political system: an irreversible process? 54. Globality, globalism, globalisation 55. Right and Left on line. Parties go on the Internet 56. Dispar condicio? 57. The Italian school between reform and counter-reform 58. Will devolution be good for our health? 59. Consultation is dead. Long live concertation 60. Italian cinema between right and left