Well there's the aqueduct, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, and the wine. But also the current Italy has corruption, bureaucracy, low productivity, 3rd rate education system. When there was a headlong rush to create the Euro zone and anyone displaying a hint of scepticism was a luddite all of the National books were meant to be audited to ensure all the strict entry criteria had been met. We are all aware that certain countries received a blind eye audit to allow them to participate and yet here we are, with the Euro zone at the precipice and yet we all knew that both Italy and Greece were spending more than they earned. Then to suddenly receive huge grants from the Euro and it becomes children in a sweet shop.  Already the banks are setting up committees to look at the fall out of one or two currencies. It's been apparent all along that a single currency needs a single fiscal decision making process, and yet National interests will automatically bubble up. How will the Portuguese minister for roads accept being told his budget is cut by a German bureaucrat in Bonne, how will an Italian Health minster take to being told by a French accountant in Paris that he needs to close three hospitals to save money.

Which road will the Euro take?