Will that be due to the resounding success of their booming economy too?
You couldn’t make it up …
It appears that only Italy’s booming organised crime sector has been able to lift the country’s moribund economy out of recession.
Accounting changes across the EU have seen key illegal economic activities such as prostitution and drug trafficking included in a country’s official GDP measure.
As a result, Italy’s economy was said to have risen slightly from a 0.1 per cent decline for the first quarter of 2014 to a flat reading, the National Institute for Statistics, Istat, said.