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«Italy is a great country», loves repeating the minister of the Interior, Angelino Alfano. If you are open to non-sense, yes it is. Italy is that country where everything is possible, even the unthinkable. There has been en era of ministers labelling Italians as «big dummy boys»¹ instead of creating job opportunities, and there is a new contemporary era of ministers saying young people in Italy have not a stable position because of themselves. That what the minister for Labour and social policies was able to state few days ago², rather than remember the world that in democracy it is up to governments - and so ministers - to stimulate employment, creation of jobs, and the inclusion in the labour market. On the contrary, Giuliano Poletti explained in Italy young people suffer of «discontinuous careers and unstable work situations». And who is the responsible for all that? According to the Italian minister for Employment «it's the young people who must pay contributions if they want social security coverage». Maybe Poletti forgets that in normal conditions, with no undeclared work, contribution are paid by employers. So, why are only the employees obliged to pay contributions and not employers? And who should make compulsory for employers paying contributions, the ministers or the workers? Welcome to the paradox of having a minister of Labour not responsible for taking measures in the labour market.
And just to come a little bit back, who is responsible for the «discontinuous careers and unstable work situations» of young people? Are the young people themselves or the labour market where enterprises and employees are free to sign only short fixed-term contracts? Last but not least, this eminent minister concluded his reasoning saying «it's fair that society guarantee citizens an adequate pension». Here we have a man totally unaware of being a minister for Labour and social affairs, since it is clear pensions are not established by society but on the contrary they are regulated by politics. The astonishing thing is these are real stories, really happened in Italy. But more astonishing is that in this wonderland of non-sense, in this senselessland not so far from the fiction city of Catchfools imagined by Carlo Collodi, nobody complained. Ministers have now a complete impunity and consensus even when they clearly have fan of electors. Maybe is because of all these reasons that «Italy is a great country», as the minister of the Interior continuously repeats.
¹The 4th of March, 2007, during a public hearing in the Senate the minister of Economy, Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, said that thanks to stability law produced by the government «all big dummy boys will leave their parents' house». It has to be said young people in Italy weren't living with parents because of free choice, but because of lack oo jobs and consequent impossibility to have a own life.
²The 2nd of December, 2015, the Italian minister of Labour and social policies Giuliano Poletti commented data from INPS, the main pension enthity in Italy, according to which 30 years old men will retire when they will be 75 years old and they will have a pension check lower by about 25% compared to today levels.
And just to come a little bit back, who is responsible for the «discontinuous careers and unstable work situations» of young people? Are the young people themselves or the labour market where enterprises and employees are free to sign only short fixed-term contracts? Last but not least, this eminent minister concluded his reasoning saying «it's fair that society guarantee citizens an adequate pension». Here we have a man totally unaware of being a minister for Labour and social affairs, since it is clear pensions are not established by society but on the contrary they are regulated by politics. The astonishing thing is these are real stories, really happened in Italy. But more astonishing is that in this wonderland of non-sense, in this senselessland not so far from the fiction city of Catchfools imagined by Carlo Collodi, nobody complained. Ministers have now a complete impunity and consensus even when they clearly have fan of electors. Maybe is because of all these reasons that «Italy is a great country», as the minister of the Interior continuously repeats.
¹The 4th of March, 2007, during a public hearing in the Senate the minister of Economy, Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, said that thanks to stability law produced by the government «all big dummy boys will leave their parents' house». It has to be said young people in Italy weren't living with parents because of free choice, but because of lack oo jobs and consequent impossibility to have a own life.
²The 2nd of December, 2015, the Italian minister of Labour and social policies Giuliano Poletti commented data from INPS, the main pension enthity in Italy, according to which 30 years old men will retire when they will be 75 years old and they will have a pension check lower by about 25% compared to today levels.
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