Laura Onofri, an economics professor who has lived in Venice for 18 years, said the December floods triggered flashbacks to last year’s disaster. “I felt sick with anxiety. I thought I had got over the trauma but it brought back the anger and the sense of helplessness.”
But the most recent acqua alta hasn’t just reignited anxieties about Venice’s future. It’s also sparked a political blame game, thrown a spotlight on the competing economic interests involved and upped the ante in a power struggle between the central government and local authorities.
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