There is an Italy that resists in silence, in warehouses with peeling walls, in shops that smell of spices and history or in the fields where the voices of the laborers mix. It is Italy that reopens its shutters every morning and invents jobs, while one of the longest crises of modernity unfolds around us. Small and medium-sized businesses are struggling, crushed by taxes, bureaucracy and raw material costs that erode the margin of survival. Many have given up, others have given in and are resisting. But in the void left by Italian VAT numbers, a new entrepreneurial class has grown, made up of distant accents and biographies of suffering. It is the Calabria of new economic operators, those arriving from other countries, who have chosen to build their new beginning here.
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