Reisedepeschen: Reisen von Gestern (1) – Interrail 2006

Auf und davon..

Viele Reiseblogs bieten vorallem eines, Posts mit vielen vielen Fotos, so auch dieser. Mir haben aber an diesem Artikel besonders die kurzen, schoen geschriebenen Texte gefallen, in denen uns der Autor Philipp Laage auf seine Reise durch Frankreich und Italien mitnimmt. Er war damals 19 Jahre alt. Er schrieb seine Erinnerungen im Abstand einiger Jahre auf. Das ist ein interessanter Aspekt.

Interrail ist eine Sache die ich selbst immer mal machen wollte aber dann doch nie tat. Schade.

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via Reisen von Gestern (1) – Interrail 2006.

What’s that spread?

The ‘spread’ has become something of a synonym of Europe’s debt crisis. There is barely a news program that does not mention it. It usually means disaster when it goes up and plain sailing when it goes down. But is that true? What is it anyway? And does it have any significance for our everyday life?

Italy – No future for Venice?

Fewer and fewer people live in Venice. Does the city have a future as such?

Venice is not a place like all others. It is a beauty which was founded as a refuge by the people of Veneto against invading Goths in 421 a.C. She has seen it all from her humblest beginnings to her heydays of the Serenissima. And she is not shy. She reveals her glorious past with confidence, evident in magnificent buildings and works of art created by the most celebrated artists of their days.

Italy – Labour reforms need to tackle youth unemployment

I recently came across an interesting article with the title Dangermen – Labour reform in Italy which laid out the many challenges the new Italian prime minister Mario Monti has to face. One of the most pressing problems is the unacceptable high unemployment rate among young people (15-24 years old) which is above 30 percent in Italy with Portugal, Spain and Greece performing evenly badly or worst (see link for graph). He is pushing for reforms to make the labour market more flexible and to encourage companies to take on new employees. This won’t be easy. He is up against all sorts of interests that benefit from the status quo and therefore seek to preserve it.