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No Country for Young Men (and Women)

Over the last 20 years, at least a half-million Italians aged 18 to 39 – and potentially far more – have headed abroad to find work, a trend that a young prime minister promising economic reform has done nothing to ease. Why are young Italians so eager to leave?

MILAN – Over the last 20 years, roughly a half-million Italians aged 18 to 39 have moved abroad, especially to more economically dynamic European Union countries such as Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. And those are just the official figures; the actual numbers are probably much higher, possibly more than double. Why are young Italians so eager to leave?

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