16 July
It may boast the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and the glories that were ancient Rome, but the city is now in chronic decline, its business leaders and inhabitants have warned.
The Eternal City is facing crisis, with its administration engulfed in corruption scandals and debt, its roads scarred by pot-holes, the main airport partially closed and a growing immigration crisis.
For generations, the Italian capital has rested on past glories rather than built on them but now its multiple problems have come to a head.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...pse-and-needs-urgent-repair-leaders-warn.html