But, whatever you do, let Italy remain being Italy

Sir, while reading Wolfgang Munchau’s “The last thing Italy needs is the more of the same” February 26, I remembered that some years ago I heard someone say that solving all the problems of Venezuela was easy, it just requires turning all the Venezuelans into Swiss, but the problem with that was that it could be an irreversible and so it might not be worth the risk. In the same way, the true challenge of transforming Italy lies in that so many would also like it to remain just the same. By the way I have lately met some globalized Swiss that seem to be a different breed that the one normally thinks of and so it would seem that the irreversibility of the Swiss is somewhat exaggerated.