As someone from Sicily who currently lives in Lombardy, I can confirm pretty much all of what you said, but there is an element that’s missing: South Italy has plenty of resources of her own, there’s oil, there’s agriculture and if the north has a great potential in Hydro-electric, the south has just as much in solar, wind and geothermal. The “issue if the south”, as it has been known in Italy for decades, has more to do with bad government and wasted potential than it has with the amount of resources (or lack there of). Many governments have tried and spectacularly failed to invest in the development of infrastructure and industries, but corruption, organized crime, and the passivity of the general public have all but guaranteed the those changes would never happen.
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