Italian entrepreneurs and poor economic performance with respect to Portugal

I quote a quote of Zingales in the latest number of "The Economist": when I go to a meeting of young entrepreneurs in America I find young entrepreneurs. When I go to a meeting of young entrepreneurs in Italy I see trust-minded kids that are there because of their parents and not of their accomplishments. This is the miracle of Italy: a labour market that is verging to Britain, with the ruling class of Saudi Arabia. And of course the Saudis blame the workers for the extremely poor performance of Italiana economy (Last year growth was inferior to Portugal, notwithstanding the relatively good world economical conidtions-