President Sergio Mattarella
said Friday that job creation is the number one priority for
Italy. "Giving youth a future is the condition for the country's
very survival," he said in the Calabria capital of Catanzaro.
"Any talk of recovery must deal with employment". Mattarella
added that defeating Calabria's powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia is
possible. "The 'Ndrangheta is a threat to the entire country and
defeating it is a national objective," he said. "Defeating the
'Ndrangheta is possible. It is a duty that must be placed at the
top of any government agenda." He also said that politics fails
to rise above particular interests when it is concerned only
with "the mere and conservative reproduction of consensus -
sometimes bordering on the gray zone that doesn't distinguish
between lawfulness and unlawfulness - in the illusion of
self-preservation, while the surrounding community can't obtain
any concrete benefits".
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