摘要: This section provides a brief overview of the economic, social and political context in Italy since the crisis (Section 1.1) and describes social dialogue and industrial relations arrangements at national level (Section 1.2). It goes on to succinctly describe how public services are addressed in the European Semester (Section 1.3) and discusses the involvement of Italian trade unions in the European Semester (Section 1.4). It finally highlights Italy’s performance with reference to some of the headline indicators of the Social Scoreboard (Section 1.5).