MILAN: “Italy gets worse every time you look at it and offers less and less to young people,” says Antonio Davide D’Elia, just one of thousands of young Italians who have decided to try their luck abroad. With the country struggling to kick an economic slump, some 40,000 Italians between 18 and 34 years old set out to seek greener pastures elsewhere in 2015, according to the Migrantes Foundation. According to Raffaella Cagliano, a professor at the School of Commerce at Milan’s Polytechnic, some young Italians leave because “an experience abroad… is seen as an important added value for their careers”. But difficulties in finding work is not the only reason pushing young people to leave. D’Elia agrees, saying that London offered a sort of American Dream: “Even if you are no-one, you can become someone.

Source: Manila Times July 22, 2017 16:18 UTC