Few anecdotes from myself and my family:
- When I was at elementary school after a quarrel with a bully I was told by a teacher that I was lucky that they treat me so well here in Italy because elsewhere they would have told me to go home, imagine telling such a racist bs to a 9 years old kid
- If you have a dispute with a neighbour you might have every reason in the world but the police officers will always side with the italian neighbour.
He can do to you whatever he wants to annoy you and no police officer would ever lift a finger, but if you dare to pay back with the same thing, alas, be prepared to have them coming to your door again and again and to face unpleasant consequences.
- When my nephew made a small scratch on another kid in the kindergarten, the teachers made us to apologise to the kid and to his family, but when another kid made a bump on my nephew's head with a wooden rod they pretended that is was totally fine and even acted offended by our questions.
I don't know if other europeans countries are better but Italy is totally not a safe place to live in and to run business for chinese people, even when the we try to avoid contact with the locals because every time we try we are burned they manage to criticize us for being a "closed community that does not try to integrate in the society".
The labour protections you mention are a thing of the past, nowadays many youngsters and immigrants work on precarious employments that have none of those benefits.
