"Costs and opportunities of the Islamic finance in Italy", November 2008 - Analysis of the Italian intelligence services
The Arab world has always paid great attention to the Italian economy, as various important investments document. However, this propensity has not shown aspects of continuity due to the well-known reasons of structural rigidity which characterize our national State-System ... Powerful limitations are also derived from the credit-financial system support for the scarce internationalization of the Italian system. In perspective, this latter criticality could be accentuated by the growing demand, in the financing of the Arab investment, of technical particulars tied to the respect for the Islamic religion ...