While Frau Merkel and her husbad are in Ischia for vacation as you can see in this link
http://www.corriere.it/esteri/foto/03-2013/merkel/accappatoio/merkel-vacanza-relax-ischia_f69a9a4e-99e4-11e2-81ce-7be9fc1a292e.shtml#1
Italians are at home for unemployment resaons and for our economy broke down thanks to German austerity.
Italy is not a Club Med country, since here we have pollution of all kinds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_death_(Italy)
http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012/03/20/inquinamento-dellaria-nord-italia-maglia-nera-deuropa-lombardia-irrespirabile/198814/
http://www.legambientecalabria.org/home/galleria-fotografica-dettaglio.asp?id_cart=22&cart=Marine%20Pollution%20-%20Roccella%20Ionica%20Settembre%202009
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/2001904/arsenic-leads-to-water-ban-north-of-rome.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/17/italy-ilva-steelworks-cancer-pollution
http://jerrygarrett.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/taranto-italys-worst-tourist-destination/
http://www.italymag.co.uk/forums/general-chat-about-italy/1580-puglia-toxic-scandal.html
http://staff.polito.it/massimo.zucchetti/Quirra_JEPE.pdf
http://www.numbeo.com/pollution/country_result.jsp?country=Italy
And of course disasters are in every part of the country:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/29/italy-earthquakes-800-aftershocks-emilia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L'Aquila_earthquake
http://storyful.com/stories/1000011271
http://italychronicles.com/cinque-terre-floods/
and do not forget mafia, 'ndrangheta, camorra and sacra corona unita!
