How Italy’s Mezzogiorno is benefiting from a flood of EU aid
It can’t spend it fast enough
Aldo Altomonte sensed that something was wrong. The man claiming to be a postman and asking to be let in said that he had Mr Altomonte’s renewed driving licence. But Mr Altomonte had applied for it only three days before. And in Italy—let alone in Reggio Calabria, the main city of Italy’s poorest region, Calabria—nothing bureaucratic ever happens in three days. It took a neighbour who knew the postman to convince the elderly Mr Altomonte that it was all true.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The cash flows south”
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