As the whole country celebrated yesterday with many shops closing to join the festivities and to make the most of an opportunity to have a day off, many Italians celebrated the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification. In Rome, - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano appealed to the country on Thursday to get young people into work during a keynote speech to parliament marking the 150th anniversary of Italian unification.
This has to be a good move to be positively encouraged and supported to sponsor a national strategy to create opportunities to increase employment. Much of Italian Society and especially that in Sicily today is effected by high unemployment, it is such that so many people are unemployed it is necessary to search for other opportunities for income generation, and it is often too easy to get involved in illicit or illegal affairs.
"The social question must be seen above all as a dramatic lack of employment prospects for a significant number of young people," Napolitano said.
The president's speech underscored the importance of national unity and cohesion, praised the role of social partners and the Catholic Church, and stressed that even the regionalist Northern League's pet project of federalism should be used to bring regions together rather than separate them.
He won a ringing round of applause, even from the Northern League, with a rousing end to his speech, saying:
"We will rise to the challenges awaiting us, as at other crucial moments in the past.
"But we will do so on one condition: that a strong, united national cement works anew, not eroded or dissolved by blind partisanship, by widespread loss of a sense of limits and responsibilities".
In a single departure from his prepared text, the president concluded by saying "Viva La Repubblica! Viva l'Italia Unita!".
Sourced at Lifin itali.com and modified by Daran Oswyn Jones.
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