Time is passing and Italy is not approaching her basic strategic problems: energy, technology, infrastructure, university. When voting Italians think to the smile of a candidate, his entertainment proposals, pensions, some help from a poor state. Very shortsighted Mediterranean but problems are growing and complicating not disappearing eating and drinking.
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