As soon as I finish my degree I’ll move somewhere else, most of my friends (that attend the best universities in the country) want to do the same. The only reason most of us stayed here for uni are the incredibly high quality universities that are super cheap.
Here are some of the problems we face in my point of view: https://ferrucc.io/italy-s-problems/
I am now starting to discover not only pension, but lots and lots of financial systems and scheme, are not sustainable. Including what ever currency system we have in place.
The taxes in Europe are insane - huge social security taxes (before you even get your paycheque) and sales taxes.
Yes, healthcare and education is paid for. But if you are middle-class, the extra taxes you will pay in Europe will far outweigh the gains your receive from that (compared to America - where you pay less in taxes, but have to pay for your own college education and healthcare).
Its unsurprising that Europeans have such low birthrates. The cost of living is mostly the same as the US, but the salaries are much lower/taxes are much higher.
This whole system needs to be unwound, and more money put into the hands of workers. If it means people no longer get a state pension, then so be it.
I actually dropped out of Poli and moved to Helsinki, and most of my friends scattered around Europe.
Did you see this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045294
Your post has a nice collection of issues, IMO there is one missing: there is absolutely zero interest in investing in research and technology (e.g. afaik there is still no fast internet outside of big cities) and young generations (this is related to the aging population, that makes it convenient for politicians to target retired people to get their votes. Convenient for them in the short term, but not as much for the future of the country)
I checked the Chrome dev tools 'Audit' for your site and I have not seen another website that ranks so highly for performance. Not hard when you just have a simple blog, but the rest of the world is struggling with this.
No business wants a site with no picture where they can't monitor what people where looking at.
If you live in a Silicon Valley bubble where the 'customer is the product' and all you have to sell is advertising space then you might not understand this.
Adding images to this website does not necessarily undermine the 'audit' metrics. Clearly this has to be done with sensibly sized images otherwise those metrics will be affected negatively.
Small to medium sized real businesses do not necessarily need Google Analytics with people on the payroll to troll the rest of the company with petty 'SEO demands'. If a company has established relationships with distributors or if products are supplied on an 'OEM' basis to a handful of partners then the website need be no more than a glorified 'contact us' page.
Server side analytics are fine for such an internet presence. In some ways better as there is no need to have a silly 'cookie' notice.
You have a very narrow idea of business value if it is all about stalking your potential customers and ramming adverts that they did not want down their eyeballs, wasting their time and bandwidth in the process.