2008, a bad year for Italy

The journalist Francesco Merlo contemplates the prospect of the year about to begin. "What can we wish upon Italy on the verge of 2008? What can we wish upon schools, railways, the health system, publishing, Rai television, and entrepreneurs preaching the courage they lack? ... And upon our miserable film industry, literature and music that has never been so brainless? ... The only hope for 2008 is, perhaps, that it could be the year where depression, hitting rock bottom, gives rise to a renaissance in Italy of artistic and literary masterpieces. ... This is the dream for 2008: that this great depression might awaken Italian talent able to transform weakness into strength, providing a last resort for retrieving life, charm and strength in 2009, perhaps."

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