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This special report will argue that the cause of Italy’s present unease is much more recent. Between 2000 and 2010 Italy’s average growth, measured by GDP at constant prices, was just 0.25% a year. Of all the countries in the world, only Haiti and Zimbabwe did worse. Many things contribute to these gloomy figures. Italy has become a place that is ill at ease in the world, scared of globalisation and immigration. It has chosen a set of policies that discriminate heavily in favour of the old and against the young. Combined with an aversion to meritocracy, this is driving large numbers of talented young Italians abroad. In addition, Italy has failed to renew its institutions and suffers from debilitating conflicts of interest in the judiciary, politics, the media and business. These are problems that concern the nation as a whole, not one province or another. They have not been helped by Mr Berlusconi’s incumbency in the Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister’s official residence (which, in a characteristic confusion of public duty and private pleasure, he tends to avoid in favour of his own residence nearby, one of many). It is time for Italy to stop blaming the dead for its difficulties, to wake up and have a shot of that delectable coffee it makes.

A. 어휘
measure 측정하다. constant prices 不變價格(불변가격).
contribute to 원인이 되다, 기여하다. gloomy 어두운, 침울한.
figures 數値(수치). ill at ease 불안한, 마음을 놓지 못하는.
scared 두려워하다. immigration 流入(유입) 이민. discriminate 차별하다.
aversion 嫌惡(혐오), 반감. meritocracy 실력주의사회, 秀才(수재) 교육제도.
institutions 제도, 학회, 기관. debilitating 쇠약하게 하는.
conflicts of interest 이해관계로 인한 갈등. judiciary 사법부.
incumbency 在職(재직). official residence 官邸(관저).
shot 한번 복용. delectable 즐거운.