Un-Italian games
The far-right mayor of Monfalcone, a small town on the Adriatic coast, has banned cricket from being played in the town. Foreigners make up nearly a third of the population of the town and are overwhelmingly represented by Bangladeshis working in the local shipyard. She has also removed benches from the town square, used by Bangladeshis, and criticised the clothes that Muslim women choose to wear on the beach.
“They’ve given nothing to this city, to our community. Zero,” she says. “They are free to go and play cricket anywhere else… outside of Monfalcone.”
Meanwhile, Italy has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe and faces severe labour shortages. Academics calculate that the country will need to import 280,000 foreign workers per annum over the next 25 years to bolster the shrinking workforce and support an ageing population.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5njmgmvq7o
“They’ve given nothing to this city, to our community. Zero,” she says. “They are free to go and play cricket anywhere else… outside of Monfalcone.”
Meanwhile, Italy has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe and faces severe labour shortages. Academics calculate that the country will need to import 280,000 foreign workers per annum over the next 25 years to bolster the shrinking workforce and support an ageing population.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5njmgmvq7o
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