Federico Pepe

Nella foto qui accanto, tratta da Repubblica.it, il nostro caro primo ministro Romano Prodi spiega ai giornalisti le novità della nuova legge finanziaria.

E dopo il New York Times ci si mette anche il Times… La sinfonia è sempre la stessa… all’estero non ci vedono proprio benissimo per usare un’eufemismo… Consiglio anche questa volta la lettura integrale dell’articolo… fatelo!

— 0% population growth rate

— 42.5 median age, compared with 38.5 in Britain

— one in five Italians is over 65

— 1.29 children born per woman. 2.1 needed to maintain population

— 120 days lost each year to strike action per 1,000 employees from 2001 to 2005, compared with 26 in Britain

— 20th place on Human Development Index, the UN measure of factors such as education, wealth and life expectancy, four places below Britain and seven below Spain. Italy dropped three places in the past year

— 7% unemployment rate, higher than 76 countries, including Romania, Nigeria, Cambodia and Ukraine

— 106% public debt as proportion of GDP, the sixth-highest in the world, higher than Zimbabwe