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Southern solar scheme leaves millions untouched as businesses shun incentives
Italy's €262 million photovoltaic incentive scheme for southern businesses has approved only 566 projects, leaving over €200 million unspent and raising questions about the South's capacity to absorb EU-backed green investment.
Antonio Petrella · 398 words
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Geography & climate
Continental inland, Mediterranean on the coast.
Apennine hills sloping to a short Adriatic coast; sparse, agricultural, mountainous.
Economy & culture
Agriculture, small manufacturing, emigration-shaped economy, wind energy.
Transhumance and the tratturi, Albanian and Croatian minority villages, the joke that 'Molise doesn't exist'.