Un Mezzogiorno da Ridere anche sulle Pagine dell'Economist

Una visione impietosa delle condizioni attuali del Sud sono state pubblicate sull'Economist che delinea un quadro inquietante del nostro vivere nel Mezzogiorni. Crudo e reale.
Qui, di seguito, un passaggio:

'Other failings are more glaring still. The quality of education in the south is much lower than in the north. A ranking by Shanghai’s Jiao Tong university put only three southern universities among Italy’s top 20, which are themselves hardly world-class. Infrastructure is often hopeless. It takes five hours to cross Sicily by rail from Palermo to Catania. How long it takes to drive from Salerno to Reggio di Calabria is a matter of chance. Work on modernising the A3 highway was due to finish six years ago, but will not now do so before 2011. The airport at Reggio could almost be in one of the poorer parts of South-East Asia. There is still no physical link between the mainland and Sicily, home to one in 12 Italians—and there remains much scepticism about the wisdom of the Berlusconi government’s promised bridge.'

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