Saturday, 5 May 2012


CGIA reports suicide of 32 entrepreneurs this year

15:58 03 MAG 2012 

(AGI) Rome - The CGIA has reported the suicide of 32 entrepreneurs since the beginning of this year due to the economic crisis . Data was provided by the Mestre based CGIA.

  The Region most affected by this tragedy has been the Veneto, where in the first 4 months of 2012, ten small entrepreneurs decided to end their lives following economic problems caused in recent years by the serious financial crisis. 

The CGIA, however, reported that it is difficult to identify the reasons for these tragedies, but that a lack of liquidity is the common denominator found in almost every case. 

Many entrepreneurs, fell into a profound crisis without managing to get back onto their feet following missed payments for goods or services provided. 

As already proposed a few weeks ago by the Veneto Region, the CGIA has asked for the creation of a national solidarity fund to issue loans to the entrepreneurs of small and medium-sized companies experiencing serious economic and financial problems and without access to bank credit, or to those whose loans have been called in. 

In the Veneto there have been ten suicides, with four in Apulia and four in Sicily. In Tuscany 3, 2 in Sardinia and 2 in Lazio, with 1 in Campania, Lombardy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Abruzzo and Liguria respectively.

http://www.agi.it/english-version/italy/elenco-notizie/201205031558-cro-ren1060-cgia_reports_suicide_of_32_entrepreneurs_this_year