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On Monday 3 October there will be an anti-terrorist exercise in the heart of Rome. The Colosseum, Piazza Navona, Campo de Fiori, the central railway station, the underground and other key cultural and public service site...
A battle is raging in the senate about how far proposed exemptions to the Imposta Comunale Immobiliare (real estate council tax) should go. A majority in government want to extend the ICI exemption to ecclesiastical prop...
Italians worked fewer hours in the first six months of 2005 than during the same period in 2004 all because of strikes. From January to June this year, over 3.4 million working hours were lost as a direct result of labo...
Teenage tearaways can forget skipping their least-favoured classes and getting away with it. At least, that will soon be the case for students attending schools in Romes 13th municipality, which includes the seaside reso...
The Rome city council, the confederation of shop keepers and retailing associations have joined forces once again to offer Romans a basket of 60 food items at specially-reduced prices. The products in the basket include...
The value of black market labour in Italy has increased by at least one per cent of GDP over the last decade, according to the latest figures from Italys national institute for statistics, Istat. The level of undeclared...
The cost of current accounts offered by Italian banks are the most expensive of 130 financial institutions in 19 countries, says a report. The study, World Retail Banking, carried out by Capgemini, EFMA and Dutch bank IN...
Italians have a burgeoning love-hate relationship with their telefonini (mobiles phones) according to a report published by market researchers, Astra Ricerche, for Finnish company Nokia. The study, based on the responses...
More than 60 per cent of homeopathic medicines currently on sale in Italy will no longer be legally allowed, if a draft law published by the ministry of health passes both houses of parliament. The measure proposes that...
Four leading Italian consumer associations have organised a day of protest and a strike on Wednesday 14 September. Italians are being urged not to do any shopping, not to go to the post office or the bank, not to buy pet...
The infamous prison, the Regina Coeli, in the Trastevere area of Rome, has become so overcrowded that 50 prisoners have been transferred to Palermo in Sicily. The maximum number of prisoners that can be accommodated in t...
Data collected by Italys Guardia della Finanza (financial controllers/tax Inspectors) and published on www.miaeconomia.it reveal that in three out of four cases property rents are not being declared to the authorities. I...
Cut-price cars and instant degrees too good to be true? Via phone, internet, or simply door-to-door, fraud is on the rise and now accounts for just under four per cent of all crimes committed in Italy. Sergio Scicchitan...
A tough year awaits parents and teachers in Italy, as kids return from the summer break. The first issue is whether Italy can provide a decent level of education with ever-lower levels of resources, following reforms pus...
Rome is to be granted 500 million for its three universities by INAIL, the national insurance company to which all employers have to make compulsory payments to cover employees against work-related injuries. The money fo...
Italian schools will open in the next few days with the average age of the teaching staff one of the oldest in Europe. According to the trades union organistation UIL, of the 680,000 teachers working in state schools, 34...
Following an investigation by Italys telecoms watchdog, the Autorit per le telecomunicazioni, fixed-to-mobile phone calls will cost around a third less from 1 September. The Autorit concluded that Italys main mobile oper...
Italys most famous football referee Pierluigi Collina has retired after all. Collina, who was the referee at the last World Cup final in Korea in 2002, should have retired already since he reached his 45th birthday in Fe...
Pouring rain and tailbacks greeted thousands of Romans over the weekend, as the summer break drew to a close. The years biggest homecoming saw hold-ups on most major arteries leading into the capital, including the Via A...
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