No, not really. They realize that they can't go anywhere speaking Italian, but they just don't care about learning anything else. Life's good in Italy so there's no reason moving, in their opinion...at least it was. They're starting to change their tune, though, and want to move to new places. I hear all the time people complaining and saying they're gonna leave and I always ask them how they're gonna get by when they don't speak the language. They didn't think about that, and so they rush to take English lessons, like they're computer lessons or something. I tell them that by now, they're gonna have to study for about 10 years to become fluent. The shitty part of all this is that English is taught in every single school as a mandatory course from elementary through high school, but they only teach rules and that can only take you so far.
It's not so different from native English speakers...they always fall back on the, "but English is the international language", but that's a crock. The real reason most native English speakers don't speak a foreign language is the exact same reason other cultures don't speak English very well: they're lazy and just don't care.