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Enrolment for the 2006 Rome Marathon is now open. There are three deadlines for registration with different fees according to how early you enroll: 20 Dec (30); 31 Jan (40); 9 March (50). In an attempt to encourage more...
The governor of the Bank Antonio Fazio finally resigned his position on Monday 19 December in order to restore some calm to the political scene and to the Bank of Italy after months controversy surrounding his position....
The main English-language services in Rome during the festive period. For the popes programme contact the prefecture of the papal household, tel. 0669883114, www.vatican.va, or see the Vatican daily newspaper Osservatore...
Lazio is preparing new measures for common law couples, with a view to recognising their civil and social rights. A sign of the times, the memorandum approved on 13 December commits Lazio to safeguarding non-traditional...
Three new rectors have recently taken up posts with English-speaking Roman Catholic churches in Rome.
Father Louis Brennan has come to S. Isidoros after 13 years as a provincial delegate in Dublin of the Irish province...
The Italian minister for health, Francesco Storace, and the countrys dispensing pharmacists have come to an agreement to reduce the price of prescribed medicines. Those that come into what is known as category C will fal...
According to a new study by Unicredit Banca, some 6,000 Roman small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) risk bankruptcy and another 43,000 are already experiencing serious banking-related problems. Rome is described as I...
A voucher payment system for occasional workers will be experimented in ten Italian cities, starting in the new year. The vouchers will bring many people, who currently work illegally with no social security contribution...
There are 1,026 medals ready for the winners of the Winter Olympic Games, which open in Turin on 10 February. As large as a CD and slightly concave, the medals are like doughnuts (or Olympic rings) with a hole in the mid...
Petrol prices in Italy are notoriously high, with the average price of a litre of unleaded at 1.25, slightly above the European Union average of 1.23, and well above the price in France (1.18) and Spain (1.01). Part of t...
A new bookshop called Libreria Punch selling English books has opened in the Monteverde Vecchio area of Rome. The shop sells books in English and Italian, CDs, films, cards and gifts.
Piazza Rosolino Pilo 6. Tel. 06580...
Rome will be hard hit this year by the exemption of church property and non-profit organisations from payment of ICI, a local-property tax. In Rome, the Catholic Church owns extensive property, not just church buildings...
Sunday 30 October sees the end of European summer time for 2005 when clocks will go back from 03.00 02.00 on Sunday morning. Clocks will revert to European summer time once more, going forward on hour on Sunday 26 March...
Tickets will be on sale until 15 December for the two rugby matches to be played in Italy in the Six Nations Cup competition, which is played every year between England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy. The tw...
When the Inter Milan football team took to the pitch to play a Champions league match against Artmedia Bratislava there was not one Italian footballer in the team; all eleven players were non-Italian and only one, midfie...
Compulsory military service in Italy came to an end on 24 December 2004 but since then there has been a boom in young people volunteering to join the services for a 12-month period. A total 100,000 applications have been...
In the first nine months of 2005, the top ten Italian banks made profits of 8,625 million. This is compared to 5,520 million in the same period in 2004. Although a large amount of this profit has come from capital gains,...
Bob Geldof criticised the Italian governments record on aid to Africa when he received Romes Man for Peace 2005 award on 24 November, in recognition of his anti-poverty campaigning for Africa. He labelled the bel paese t...
Romes 5,000 registered blind people will now have the added assistance of audible signals at many of the citys key junctions. The number of audible traffic crossings is set to rise from 60 at present to some 470 over the...
Fathers from two Italian associations demonstrated at Romes Fiumicino international airport mid November, warning foreigners not to marry in Italy. The men members of associations for divorced and separated fathers cla...
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