The Italian Voice

In these days, it is quite hard to find good news to report, as the current Italian government is approving several “ad personam” laws.
I find it scandalous, anyone does not seem able to stop it.
Someone already told that we are going straight toward another era of Fascism.
I must admit that I totally agree, but I will try to stay calm and to write and show you the best part of this Country, which surely deserves a nice treatment, especially people who are totally different from the political class.

Some days ago, for example, as you can see here above from the small outline which I took yesterday during an online research, the undersecretary at the presidency of the lower house of Parliament, Carlo Giovanardi, approved a testing which will surely bring great benefits to the attempt of saving more lives.

In fact, four Italian cities (Cagliari, Verona, Perugia and Foggia) from September 2008 will experiment this advance test to verify the presence of drugs or alcohol into the blood of the ones who will get for the very first time or will renew their driving licence. Then, the test will become compulsory for the whole Italy starting from the 2009.

Mr Giovanardi explained that this necessity comes from the fact that Europe will approve the same important measure in 2011 and Italy wants to anticipate it to contribute to the hard process of saving always more and more lives and of educating people while driving.

In my personal experience I can say that in Italy people drive in a very bad way, drivers often break the laws of the highway code, they do not seem to mind about fines and reduction of the points from the driving licence, they cause accidents which are due often to unscrupulous use of drugs and alcoholic drinks which are usually fatal.
Someone has to stop this situation.
That is why I totally support this experiment and the consequent measure, it will surely help our roads to be safer and our lives to be healthier. Good job!