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Inside Europe: Is there a future for Italy's 'big babies'?

Stephen Beard
March 9, 2018

Youth unemployment is extremely high in Italy, especially in the poorer south. Many young people find it hard to leave home and set up on their own. Two-thirds of young Italian adults, up to age of 34, are still living with their parents. These so-called Bamboccioni were an issue in the recent election campaign and may well have helped sway the result. From Rome, Stephen Beard reports.

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