News from the Consulate
News from Italy
NEWS
from Italy
Consulate of Italy in Detroit
Calendar of Events in Ohio
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Italian translation on page 17
Capracotta, Italy
Italy’s unemployment rate is trending
downward, slipping from 12.7 percent to
12.6 percent. ISTAT, a national statistics
agency, reported 11,000 new jobs were
created, indicating that Italy may be coming
out of a long period of stagnation. Youth
unemployment fell also, from 41.4 percent
to 41.2 percent. Prime Minister Matteo
Renzi is commended for his support
of a Jobs Act which made it easier for
employers to hire and fire workers. The
unemployment rate across the Eurozone
slid to its lowest rate since April of 2012.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - The Italian media is reporting that
thousands of doctors have left the country
looking for work elsewhere. The Ministry
of Health has issued paperwork for nearly
2,400 medicine graduates which will allow
them to work abroad. That’s double the total
that made the same request in 2013. Not
included are doctors who work elsewhere
in Europe where Italian documentation
is not required. Doctors are leaving for
several reasons; lack of job openings, low
salaries, insecure contracts, and staff
shortages. Each year, as many as 10,000
medical students graduate in Italy but only
6,000 job openings are available. Specialist
magazines in France, Germany and England
invite graduates to join their health systems.
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Eighty foreigners are among the more than
1,000 applicants looking to work in 20 of
Italy’s top museums, including Florence’s
Uffizi Gallery and Rome’s Borghese Gallery.
The selection process is underway. An art
director’s panel is screening the applications.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - The gender pay gap also makes news in
Italy. Women, on average, are earning about
7 percent less than men and rarely hold
managerial positions. Women in Italy are
less likely to have full-time jobs than men.
Nearly 32 percent work part-time. They
also hold lower-level jobs with only 28
percent in managerial positions. Europe’s
best place for working women is Slovenia.
Germany has one of the largest pay gaps.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Italy’s economy is expected to grow by
six percent over the next year, based on
reports from the Organization for Economic
Coming up in 2015
“Next Stop: Italy” – A journey
to discover Italy: its brilliance,
innovation, and excellence,
anchored in the present and
driven by an unparalleled past.
This exhibition encourages
reading and art appreciation
through the pairing of the
works by 12 celebrated Italian
photographers:
Gabriele
Basilico, Gianni Berengo
Gardin, Mario Cresci, Renato
D’Agostin, Andrea Galvani,
Luigi Ghirri, Mimmo Jodice,
Nino Migliori, Francesco
Next Stop: Italy
Nonino,
Bianca
Sforni,
Franco Vaccari and Paolo
Ventura, with lines written
by unparalleled poets: Ugo
Foscolo, Giacomo Leopardi,
Mario Luzi, Lorenzo de’
Medici, Eugenio Montale,
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Cesare
Pavese,
Sandro
Penna,
Salvatore Quasimodo, Amelia
Rosselli,
and
Giuseppe
Ungaretti. Photography in
Italy seems, more than ever,
to be in harmony with the
times, capable of integrating
the dominant characteristics
of the present of the era.
The gift of the image and
the brevity of verse, join
together as protagonists in
this innovative exhibition to
show America the special, allItalian relationship between
tradition and renewal, past
and future. The original
images, selected by the
exhibition’s curator with the
Library of Congress, have
been acquired and will remain
in the Library, that immense
and captivating “hard-drive”
of the American people.
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Coming up in 2015
“War & Art - Destruction
and protection of Italian
Cultural
Heritage
during WWI” – This
photographic exhibition,
based on images from
the Museo Centrale del
Risorgimento’s
archives
in
Rome,
highlights
the ravages that war can
War & Art
wreak not only on human
beings, but also on what
should be the inviolate
beauty of art. The exhibit
represents
a
unique
opportunity to recapture
and gain more insight
into a significant part of
our history. The specific
focus
on
preserving
cultural heritage provides
a first-hand cultural and
historical
perspective
of the conflict, as well
as of the broader Italian
framework. It was also
thanks to the vital support
of the U.S. that Italy was
able to preserve most of
its artistic treasures – and
thus of its identity – from
ruthless
annihilation.
For information on these events, please contact:
Serena Scaiola, Hon. Consul of Italy in Cleveland | [email protected] | (216) 861.1585 | www.consdetroit.esteri.it
Cooperation and Development. According
to OECD, stagnation will be dealt with by
a revision of the labor market and taxation
system. Reforms also include electoral,
judicial and educational systems changes.
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