Ambrosetti 2008
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The annual Ambrosetti Forum is Italy’s own mini-Davos set next to Lake Como. Started in 1975, politicians, financiers and business people, from across the world, debate the key issues of the day
Video: Italian business gets on with the job
Italy goes to the polls this weekend with Silvio Berlusconi of the centre-right People of Freedom party leading the polls and set to take over from the centre-left Democratic party. Italy’s economy is beset by problems and businesses know exactly what they would like to see changed. But as Adrian Michaels, the FT’s Milan correspondent, reports from a gathering of business leaders organised by The European House Ambrosetti, Italian companies have developed a remarkable self-reliance
Video: Mario Monti - Italian election victor must reform economy
Unless major structural reform of the economy takes place, Italian business will not be able to compete properly in the global economy despite its flair for “creative ingenuity”, according to Mario Monti, president of Bocconi University and former EU commissioner.
