Italy Report 2015
Six dichotomies to understand the changing Italy:
COURAGE/RESIGNATION • CITIZENSHIP/SUBJECTION • MORALITY/LAW • NATURAL/ARTIFICIAL • CITY/COUNTRY • PRESENT/FUTURE
the Italy Report 2015, now in its 27th edition, has over time become an appreciated point of reference for scholars, institutions, the information system and international observers.
By methodological choice, each year the Report is built around six dichotomies, illustrated by six essays accompanied by sixty phenomenological files. Thus, through a dual reading of reality, it addresses issues that the Institute considers representative, though not exhaustive, of Italy’s political, economic and social current affairs. The Report is enriched by sample surveys that, in this annual edition, have explored some of the Eurispes’ traditionally proposed themes: a focus on religion and faith, ethical issues and values, the economic situation of families and consumption, trust in institutions, employment and the labour market, the Euro and Europe, the world of animals, and a number of other topical issues.
Index
ITALY REPORT 2015
INDEX
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
by Gian Maria Fara, President of Eurispes
The Big Burden
Five points
Bureaucracy: the “Great Burden”
Changing direction. The non-existent politics
The Stone Guest
Money Dirtying, or when the mafia is convenient
Costs and benefits
Too much of the same
Goodbye, intellectuals
How we can come out of it
CHAPTER 1 –
COURAGE/RESIGNATION
Humankind, between courage and resignation, the choice between life and death
1. The economic status of households (Survey)
2. Italian work culture: Waiting for Godot with a suitcase in hand (Survey)
3. La persecuzione dei giorni nostri: lo stalking (Sondaggio)
4. Judges in the front line: the role and commitment of the National Anti-Mafia
Directorate
5. The gold buyers
6. Usury victim employees
7. High professionalism, affordable to all
8. Education, an investment for the future
9. Occupy Wall Street
10. The back reshoring: a new opportunity for the “Made in Italy”
CHAPTER 2 –CITIZENSHIP/SUBJECTION
Lookinf for the lost sense of citizenship
11. Trust in Institutions: nothing new on the Western front (Survey)
12. The Common Agricultural Policy
13. EU funds
14. Italy’s gap in public transport infrastructure
15. Labour Law: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow?
16. “Youth Guarantee”: an opportunity for the reform of the Italian labour system
17. Towards digital Italy
18. Energy efficiency and socio-economic development
19. Internet of things: the soul of things
20. The Euro-discouraged (Survey)
CHAPTER 3 –MORALITY/LAW
Ideological traps
21. Ethical issues and values (Survey)
22. Investing in the future of agriculture: access to bank credit
23. The new fathers. Comparing men and women (Survey)
24. The crisis of the family institution and the emergence of new poverty situations
25. What remains of ‘young Italy’: too many thoughts and not enough action
26. The crisis of information as an “intermediate body”
27. Transport and mobility: the citizens’ word (Survey)
28. Corporate Social Responsibility in times of crisis
29. Between democracy and bureaucracy, a case study: Dentistry
30. Mystery and transparency. Freemasonry in Italy
CHAPTER 4 – NATURAL/ARTIFICIAL
Biology and technology in the mirror
31. The elderly, “social shock absorbers” in an economy in crisis
32. The new purchasing patterns of Italian consumers: e-commerce and the second-hand market
33. Purchasing behaviour in times of crisis: grocery shopping programming
34. The Egadi Islands as a “Smart Island”. An example of eco-innovation for sustainable tourism
35. Waste from electrical and electronic equipment: from problem to resource
36. Copper theft in Italy: internal crime but also silent war game for raw materials
37. Environment: between vulnerability and opportunity
38. Environment and Food: a possible union?
39. Central Inspectorate for the Protection of Quality and Fraud Repression of Agri-Food Products
40. Agri-food products of international origin: data from the Customs Agency
CHAPTER 5 – CITY/COUNTRY
The green city: reality or utopia
41. Italian consumers increasingly “unfaithful” between outlets and discount stores (Survey)
42. The State Forestry Corps: sentinel of environmental treasures
43. Social agriculture in Sicily. An innovative welfare tool or a new model for local development?
44. Tourism, the hotel sector and the energy costs burden
45. Large metropolitan areas
46. The widespread city in Italy
47. Hydrogeological and hydraulic instability
48. Community composters: innovative technology for the treatment of organic waste
49. Animals: love and respect (Survey)
50. Animal rights activists of Italy (Survey)
CHAPTER 6 – PRESENT/FUTURE
Re-thinking the future
51. Everyone on the Net. Between smartphones and Co. (Survey) a people permanently connected
52. Tv: race to the Web
53. New technologies: conquering the communication experience
54. The challenge of multilingualism (Survey)
55. Italy and cyberspace
56. A spatial Italy
57. A “green” sea
58. When innovation comes from the sky. The technological push of the Italian Air Force
59. Towards the future. The Italian Army between tradition and change
60. The geo-economic role of Central-Eastern Europe
Summary Document
Courage/Resignation • Citizenship/Subjection • Morality/Law • Natural/Artificial• City/Country • Present/Future