Europe's a lovely looking place (that, unfortunately, I have not actually seen much of in person), but it does somewhat tarnish its reputation for being more progressive (and therefore nicer) than the deplorable infected governments of the United States when you read articles like this one about the "slave labour" picking tomatoes in Italy. (Remember though that Spain also has a terrible reputation for exploiting immigrant labour in vegetable growing. I posted about Simon Reeve revealing episode 4 of his Mediterranean series about that topic not so long ago.)
Mind you, Australia's treatment of backpackers in rural areas is also often a disgrace - but at least they are free to give up and return home.
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