EU is much more "expensive" for Italy to be part of than for Germany and Germans... You may have to work until your 68, but it's not really because of the southern countries, it's more because of your government that actually - partly- leads EU and is presented as a model for every other members.Briefly, exiting from the European Union is not honouring a committment and an actual aggression because weaken the common construction.Oh Guerra civile perché un popolo con interesse nationale non vuole più vivere sotto il ditato di Brussilear...mamma mia! senti, caro italiano, per te e tuoi connazionali devo lavoro fino all età di 68...una legge nuova di nostro governo socialista-pro-europea! Capisco bene, che tu stai festiggiare questa “unione”...Il Nord paga...il Sud va in pensione... e adesso, cara Ismael, va a votary per i Stalinisti o goderti tu vita, durante il nord lavoro! Mia sveglia suona domani alle 5:50...la tua, quanto sveglia o sei già in pensione per festiggiare “l’unione” (?) europea?For similar reasons a bloody civil war burst in USA.
A general vague provision about the event of exit does not mean that this is normal and fair action but only means the will of avoiding war.
As for Italy being in a disastrous situation, it's not because of Italians spcifically, but because of the EU and euro more specifically. Since euro is way too strong for southern countries, when you import way more than you export for instance, and that it's impossible for any member to modulate the exchange rate, countries like Italy, Greece, but also France (for France, the currency should be 20% lower than €,) have no choice but to compensate by increasing unemployment rate and other crap like this.
Still it's crazy that an Italian come to tell us the propaganda he swallowed for years to tell us how EU is indispensable and mixing it with Europe as if both were the same things... I guess it's a "boomer" moment or something. What a pity though, hopefully people will realize how much of a trickery is this very blurry institution.