I am not current on the current Italian economic woes. But didn't the EU bail Italy out when they went bankrupt a few years ago? As I recall, the EU donated money to Italy and made them cut their social program handouts and payments. It was called....Austerity I think. In fact, the EU is still shoveling money to keep Italy solvent if I recall correctly. I can't imagine Italy, being a dependent of their EU masters would run from their sugar daddy.
Maybe there is more to the story.
err.. Italy hasn't gone bankrupt - I don't think even in the 1800s
they haven't been bailed out either.
And Eu shoveling money to Italy? What are you talking about?
Finally "being a dependent of their eu masters" is like saying Florida is a dependent of it's Washington DC masters - nonsensical. Italy, like the UK had, has a veto over policies (look at the weaker Poland and Hungary use that), plus they have their own eu commissioner and 73 Members of the eu parliament. Italy IS a part of the eu intrinsically as the UK was until last Friday.